Maritime record MWX2189 - Rosa

Year Built: 1866 Owner: A and F Manuelle, London Master: T Collins Crew: 5 Crew Lost: 5 Date of Loss Qualifier: A Foundered / Total Loss (2) 14-DEC, ROSA, was lost about 7 miles east of Peveril Point.(3)

The unidentified wreck reported by John Hinchcliffe has been investigated by Mike Markey who has identified the vessel as the remamins of the ROSA. He has supplied a corrected location of 50°37.368'N 1°51.968'W (WGS84) and asked that this is not made public in order to protect the wreck.

net 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> Board of Trade, 1909, Parliamentary papers 1909, Board of Trade Casualty Returns 1907, p109(315) (Monograph). SWX6554.

<4> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 892 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 892048 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 16 2024 4:07PM