Maritime record MWX2192 - Unidentified 1751 French Shallop

Crew Lost: All Date of Loss Qualifier: A (1)

At this period the Julian Calendar was still used in Great Britain, with the New Year beginning on 25th March. Therefore the dates from 1st January to 24th March (inclusive) in modern (New Style) reckoning are one year later than those printed on Lloyds List; the date of loss has been amended to 1751 to reflect this. Source (3) however, follows source (2) in expressing the date of loss as 1750 (Old Style). `On the 17th inst. put into Swanage Bay in a gale of wind at SSE the RESIGNAL...The same evening, a French shallop was seen to sink on Peveral Ledge, and the crew perished. (3)

'Letter from Pool, dated January 21. On the 17th instant put into Swanzey [sic] Bay in a gale of wind at SSE the RESIGNAL, from Havre for Bayonne. The same evening a French shallop was seen to sink off Peverel Lodge; she had 15 people on board, who were all lost.' (4)

Crew: 15 (4)
Crew Lost: All (2)(3); 15 (4)

Date of Loss Qualifier: Actual date of loss

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> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 22-JAN-1750, No.1581 (Serial). SWX8434.

<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> The Bristol Weekly Intelligencer, 26-JAN-1750-1, No.70 (Serial). SDO20281.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900468 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1437244 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 25 2024 12:31PM