Maritime record MWX1996 - Venus 1850

Year Built: 1849 Crew: 7 Crew Lost: 2 Master: R. Burgoyne Owner: W. Burgoyne Date of Loss Qualifier: A ` - William Flann, a Coastguard man, saved four from the wreck by climbing onto the rocks and helping them ashore, for which he received an RNLI. award. (1)(2) 15-FEB-1850, VENUS of Teignmouth, a brig of 190 tons and a crew of 7 from Teignmouth to London with a cargo of pipe clay was wrecked on Blackner rocks, Weymouth in a SW 6. She was supposed to have been swept into the bay by the flood tide and in the fog did not see the land until she struck. (3)(4)(5) Additional sources: RNLI. Records 1850; WT.07.03.1861 p4

net tonnage

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

<2> 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.

<3> Admiralty, 1852, Parliamentary papers 1852, Admiralty Wreck Register, 1850., pgs 22/23 (524/525) (Monograph). SWX5981.

<4> Board of Trade, 1861, Parliamentary papers 1861, Board of Trade Casualty Returns 1851-1860, p21(363) (Monograph). SWX4605.

<5> 1864, Parliamentary papers 1864, Harbour of Refuge, p115(557) (Monograph). SWX4606.

<6> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 619 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900979 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 4 2024 2:08PM