Maritime record MWX2174 - Morning Star

Year Built: 1860 Builder: J Messervy Where Built: Jersey Owner: C Y Farrant, Jersey Crew: 4(4) Date of Loss Qualifier: A Stranded, total loss. (2) On the 14-NOV-1909 the Jersey ketch MORNING STAR with copper ore loaded at Calstock on the Tamar and stranded on Broad Bench and became a wreck, no lives were lost. (3) MORNING STAR, lost Broadbench, 2.5 miles west of Kimmeridge. (4) Additional source: LR 1907 8 No 798(M)

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<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> Farr, Grahame, 1971, Wreck and rescue on the Dorset coast, p87 (Monograph). SWX1056.

<4> Board of Trade, Parliamentary papers Board of Trade Select Committee on Shipwreck., p111 (159) (Monograph). SWX6414.

<5> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 899 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 892053 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 6 2024 4:37PM