Maritime record MWX2073 - Edouard

Ten men, one woman and a child were drowned when she struck at 11pm in a violent gale. Only a Newfoundland dog reached the shore alive. (1)(2)

Crew: 10
Crew Lost: 10
Passengers: 2
Passengers Lost: 2
Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: GPCS. P35.

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 611 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900971 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 4 2024 5:15PM