Maritime record MWX2175 - Stralsund

The rescue involved the first service of the RNLB MARY HEAPE, stationed at Kimmeridge. The rescue began at 11pm when the vessel went ashore in a south west hurricane. The lifeboat went out, but after a desperate struggle the 28ft, 1.5 ton boat rowing five oars only was forced back on the beach, unable to stem the sea swirling round the eastern point of the bay. At daylight when there was a slight improvement in the weather, they made a second attempt which was successful. Using a line thrown over the wreck by a rocket apparatus, they hauled the lifeboat to and fro until the whole crew were landed. The coxswain was William Strickland, a fisherman. (1)(3) Crew: 15 Date of Loss Qualifier: A Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: GPCS p39

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> Farr, Grahame, 1971, Wreck and rescue on the Dorset coast, p85 (Monograph). SWX1056.

<3> 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.

<4> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 718 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 901120 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Apr 4 2024 4:30PM