Maritime record MWX1960 - Vera (Vercingetorix) 1889

Remains of the 1889 wreck of an English cargo vessel which stranded near Langton on her passage from Venice for London with a general cargo. Constructed of iron in 1881, she was a steam-powered vessel. Part of her panelling is said to have been inserted in the Golden Lion Hotel in Weymouth. Status: Site

Ex-VERCINGETORIX. Two of the passengers were stowaways. Richly carved timber panels from the saloon of the wreck at one time graced the walls of Weymouth's Golden Lion Hotel. (1)(4)

Built: 1881 Builder: J Blumer andamp; Co. Where Built: Sunderland Propulsion: Screw driven, 2 cylinder compound engine HP: 200 Boilers: 2 Owner: W S Bailey, Hull Master: J Campbell Crew: 25 Passengers: 5 Construction: p.deck 30ft; b.deck 58ft; f.castle 35ft Machinery: T Clark, Newcastle upon Tyne Date of Loss Qualifier: A A rusted iron firebox door with oval top and one twisted latch recovered from this wreck, Chesil Beach (Weymouth Museum). (Droit A/4386)

Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: Additional sources cited in Shipwreck Index of the British Isles:
Weymouth Library pamplet No.L769.942331.PY1; photo L910.4.VE.1-4 neg. no 37/14

gross tonnage

Position 50 37.43 N 2 33.43 W taken from (9)

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

<2> Board of Trade, 1890, Parliamentary papers 1890, Board of Trade Casualty Returns, p132 (Monograph). SWX5126.

<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> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 15 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> Receiver of Wreck, Droit of the Receiver of Wreck A/4386 (Unpublished document). SWX693.

<7> Receiver of Wreck, Droit of the Receiver of Wreck 518/00 (Unpublished document). SWX178.

<8> Receiver of Wreck, Droit of the Receiver of Wreck 377/00 (Unpublished document). SWX160.

<9> Hinchcliffe, J and V, 1999, Dive Dorset: a diver guide (3rd Edition), 105 (p94) (Monograph). SWX1.

<10> Le Pard, G F, 2005, Shipwrecks of the Dorset Coast (Monograph). SDO9637.

<11> Cumming, E, 2014, The Portland Shipwreck and Maritime Incident Directory (Monograph). SDO14012.

<12> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1614844 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 29 2024 4:45PM