Maritime record MWX2153 - Unidentified 1905 British Cutter

Owner: H.W. Hampshire Master: W.W. Wittering Crew: 2 Crew lost: 2 Date of Loss: A Stranded / Total Loss (1-2) 14-Jan: Unknown fishing cutter Birdham Chichester for Lulworth Cove in ballast was lost at St Albans Head (3)

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> Board of Trade, 1905, Parliamentary papers 1905, Board of Trade Casualty Returns 1903, p131(621) (Monograph). SWX5604.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 892042 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<6> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, 885 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

Record last edited

Feb 22 2024 1:08PM