Maritime record MWX2199 - Sisters

1837 wreck of English schooner which capsized and foundered off Peveril Point in gales, on her passage from Newcastle-upon-Tyne with coal; a wooden sailing vessel.

`Heavy gales during Tuesday night. This vessel made for Swanage Bay but capsized and sank a mile off Peveril Ledge. Captain, six men and a boy aboard. She had been a new vessel the previous Christmas, and there was a large loss of life for such a small vessel, some of whom must have been hovellers or trimmers. (1)(4) Source (4) gives a reported date of loss as NOV-1835. Built: 1836 Crew: 8 Crew Lost: 7 Date of Loss Qualifier: R Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: DCC 09 11 1837(Thu)®

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<1> Larn, Richard, 1992, United Kingdom shipwreck index, Extracted 23 November 1992 (Index). SWX5030.

<2> 1976, Dorset magazine : the county magazine vol. 50, p18 (Article in serial). SWX4560.

<3> Farr, Grahame, 1971, Wreck and rescue on the Dorset coast, p89 (Monograph). SWX1056.

<4> 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.

<5> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 581 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900934 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Nov 11 2023 7:07AM