Maritime record MWX2050 - City of Limerick

`Driven from Portland Roads onto the shore, where two crew were lost in attempting to get on board from Portland. (2)

`Weymouth, 8th Dec. The CITY OF LIMERICK, Coleman, from Portsmouth to Limerick, drove from her anchors last night in Portland Roads, during a violent gale at WSW, and went on shore among the rocks at Whiteworth Head, and is full of water. Some of the materials may be secured, but there is no probability of saving the hull. (3)

Master: Coleman
Crew Lost: 2
Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: DCC 13 12 1827®.

This vessel is only known from documentary evidence. The location given is only approximate.

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> 1976, Dorset magazine : the county magazine vol. 50, p19 (Article in serial). SWX4560.

<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> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 11-DEC-1827, No.6280 (Serial). SWX8434.

<4> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 22 (Monograph). SDO16406.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1231986 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 15 2024 4:04PM