Maritime record MWX2099 - Verbena

Built: 1898 Builder: J and W Francis Where Built: Milford Owner: W J Graham Master: C Marshall Crew: 4 Date of Loss Qualifier: A Drove ashore near Blacknor Point. The wreck was sold on the rocks. (1)(2) Ketch, VERBENA wrecked near Blacknor Point, Portland.(4) Lost in a W by S 4, 1.5 miles west of Portland.(5) Additional sources:: LR.1898-9 No.13(V)(Supp);

The Verbena was on her way from Saundersfoot in Pembrokshire to Weymouth with a cargo of culm (finely ground coal), when she was driven ashore at Blacknor Point on Portland on the 22nd July 1903. It proved to be impossible to get the vessel of the rocks, so she was sold where she lay, and broken up on the rocks.

Gross tonnage

<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> 1976, Dorset magazine : the county magazine. Dorset Shipwrecks, p22 (Article in serial). SWX5166.

<4> Farr, Grahame, 1971, Wreck and rescue on the Dorset coast (Monograph). SWX1056.

<5> Board of Trade, 1905, Parliamentary papers 1905, Board of Trade Casualty Returns 1903, p119(623) (Monograph). SWX5604.

<6> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 881 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<7> Le Pard, G F, 2005, Shipwrecks of the Dorset Coast (Monograph). SDO9637.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1147001 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 4 2024 2:12PM