Maritime record MWX1959 - Lanoma 1888

1888 wreck of English barque which stranded near Fleet Coastguard Station en route from Tasmania for London with wool and hides, having last called at Launceston. Constructed in 1876, she was a sailing vessel.

Built: 1876 Builder: S P Austin and Hunter Where Built: Sunderland Owner: T B Walker, London Master: Whittingham Crew: 18 Crew Lost: 12 Date of Loss Qualifier: A `...stranded near the Fleet coastguard station in thick weather. The following day the beach was strewn with wool, the captain and 11 men drowned. She was coming up Channel 76 days out of Tasmania, a ship that had set many previous records to and from Australia. The captain had been able to make no observations for several days and an extra sharp lookout had been kept for land. The vessel missed stays in Lyme Bay and stranded on Chesil Beach. Her crew members lost might well have been saved had she not fallen over to seaward, when she immediately began to break up. The rocket apparatus was brought to the scene by the coastguards but was too late to save the entire crew. (1)(4)

A valve, a cooking pan, and part of a pump recovered from this wreck, position 50 80.00N [sic] 002 23.50W, described as. (5)

Additional source: Weymouth Library photo L910.4.LA2, neg. No.35/31; 76/18A

Net tonnage

<1> Larn, Richard, 1992, United Kingdom shipwreck index, Extracted 23 November 1992 (Index). SWX5030.

<2> Board of Trade, 1889, Parliamentary papers 1889, Board of Trade Casualty Returns, p137 (Monograph). SWX4739.

<3> Farr, Grahame, 1971, Wreck and rescue on the Dorset coast, p44 (Monograph). SWX1056.

<4> Larn, R, and Larn, B, 1995, Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 1 : Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset Section 6, Dorset (AJ) Vol 1 (Monograph). SWX4541.

<5> 2001, Maritime and Coastguard Agency: Receiver of Wreck Amnesty (Index). SWX4542.

<6> Receiver of Wreck, Droit of the Receiver of Wreck A/2265 (Unpublished document). SWX495.

<7> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 808 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<8> Cumming, E, 2014, The Portland Shipwreck and Maritime Incident Directory (Monograph). SDO14012.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 901195 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 3 2024 11:47AM