Maritime record MWX1968 - Unidentified 1838 Brig

Stranded / Total Loss Crew Lost: All Date of Loss Qualifier: A (1-3) Weymouth 29th November: `The following vessels were driven on shore in West Bay last night during a heavy gale from S to SW...a collier brig, name unknown; crew drowned... (4)

The building date for this vessel is an estimate based on an average age at wrecking of twenty years. This average is derived from those vessels wrecked on the Dorset coast whose age at wrecking is known.

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

<2> 1975, Dorset magazine : the county magazine vol. 48, p23 (Article in serial). SWX4573.

<3> 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.

<4> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 30-NOV-1838 (Serial). SWX8434.

<5> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, 592 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1145311 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 10 2024 4:41PM