Maritime record MWX2037 - Sally 1824

`We have experienced one of the severest hurricanes that ever visited this coast...The SALLY, Moor, of Portland, broke from her anchors and sunk in the Bay; only the captains son saved. (1)

Source (3) gives the place of loss as Osmington Mills and the port of registration as Portsmouth.

`Weymouth - ...The SALLY smack of Portsmouth was lost nearly opposite Osmington Mills. The captains son saved himself by leaping aboard the NANCY brig of Weymouth. (4)

Master: Moor Crew Lost: all but 1 Date of Loss Qualifier: A

'Weymouth, Nov. 25. A most painful duty devolves upon us to recount the awful dispensation of Providence in one of the most tempestuous gales of wind, from SSW, accompanied with the highest tide which this town ever experienced. It commenced about four o'clock on Tuesday morning, and continued with unabated fury for several hours . . . Two other vessels have been wrecked on the North shore . . . the other, the SALLY, smack, of Portsmouth, Moore, master, drowned and one man.' (5)

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> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 26-NOV-1824, No.5963 (Serial). SWX8434.

<2> 1976, Dorset magazine : the county magazine vol. 50, p18 (Article in serial). SWX4560.

<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> Sherbourne Mercury, p3, 29-NOV-1824 (Serial). SWX4820.

<5> Hampshire Telegraph, 29-NOV-1824, No.1312 (Serial). SDO20645.

<6> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 552 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<7> Le Pard, G F, 1999, The Great Storm of 1824. (Article in serial). SWX7729.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1175837 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 12 2024 3:06PM