Maritime record MWX2184 - Glenmore

LAT 20-JAN-1960: GLENMORE sank on Kimmeridge Ledge near St. Albans Head, close to wreck TREVEAL. GLENMORE lies inside highest part of TREVEAL which is visible 10 to 12ft above HW. TREVEAL lies on Kimmeridge Ledge in position bearing 291 degrees 1.05 miles from St. Albans Head CG signal station. (1)

Whilst salvaging quantities of jute from the wreck of the SS TREVEAL, the GLENMORE was swept onto part of the wreck where she stuck fast and commenced leaking, eventually sinking about noon, taking to the bottom a lot of valuable standard diving equipment. (2)(3)

`The TREVEAL caused two other wrecks. Firstly, a drifter being used to salvage her cargo of jute sank after striking the wreck. And later, in 1922, the GLENMORE, a British steamship also hit the wreck and went down nearby. (4)

Propulsion: Screw driven, 3 cylinder triple expansion engine Owner: Turner Bros., Weymouth Master: C Pavey Date of Loss Qualifier: A A brass engine room telegraph gong, a brass inspection lamp, a small hand-held manometer, a small padlock, and a pressure gauge among the items recovered from the TREVEAL/GLENMORE, position 50 35.10N 002 04.54W. (Droit A/3179) Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: GPCS. p45; ST.01.04.1922(R); Dorset Magazine 1975 No.49 p30

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.

Position 50 35.17N 2 4.90W taken from (4)
Gross tonnage

<1> United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, 1992, Hydrographic Office wreck index (Index). SWX4837.

<2> Larn, Richard, 1992, United Kingdom shipwreck index, Extracted 23 November 1992 (Index). SWX5030.

<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> Hinchcliffe, J and V, 1984, Dive Dorset: a diver guide (1st Edition), p123 (Monograph). SWX1714.

<5> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 52 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 904653 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Apr 8 2024 3:54PM