Maritime record MWX2041 - Unidentified 1574 Cargo Vessel

Additional cargo carried by this private man o war included honey, ginger and spices. `The country people came down on the wreck, but Sir Richard Rogers, lord or landlord of much of the area got there first and claimed the wreck. (1)(2) Master: Courte Higgenbert Date of Loss Qualifier: R Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: Dorset Elizabethans Lloyd Rachael 1967 p11

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> 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> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 318 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900415 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 13 2024 3:29PM