Maritime record MWX2000 - Columbine

The COLUMBINE `left Gravesend on her 16th voyage to the Gambia on Friday November 22nd, amongst her passengers being the Reverend and Mrs. Pears, for the mission station at St. Mary's, plus four other respectable passengers. The vessel went ashore in a gale on Portland Beach and all were lost. Artefacts and wreck timbers from the COLUMBINE, EARL OF ABERGAVENNY and ROYAL GEORGE were all offered for sale at Weymouth at the time by Messrs. J Medhurst, Chesterfield Place, The Esplanade, Weymouth. The vessel went ashore opposite Wyke at 7am, turned over and was dashed to pieces; several men were seen in the rigging before she capsized. A body taken from the wreck was identified from papers as Robert Fraser, going out to join the Royal African Corps. Newlywed Wesleyan missionaries, the Pears were buried together at the Methodist chapel graveyard at Fortunes Hill on the Isle of Portland. (3) `The following vessels were driven on shore in West Bay...during a heavy gale from S to SW: The COLUMBINE, Lang, from London to Africa, and is gone to pieces; crew drowned... (4)

Built: 1810
Master: Lang
Crew: 10
Crew Lost: 10
Passengers: 6
Passengers Lost: 6

Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: Pamphlet, The loss of the EARL OF ABERGAVENNY, East Indiaman, notes and a poem, by John Barlow, teacher of languages. (1-5)

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

<2> 1975, Dorset magazine : the county magazine vol. 49, p23 (Article in serial). SWX4562.

<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.

<5> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 584 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> Cumming, E, 2014, The Portland Shipwreck and Maritime Incident Directory (Monograph). SDO14012.

<7> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 23 (Monograph). SDO16406.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900937 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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