Maritime record MWX2203 - Thalia

1883 wreck of yacht which stranded near Swanage, being said to have moored off Swanage in a "very dangerous position". Constructed of wood, she was a sailing vessel.

The Swanage lifeboat CHARLOTTE MARY stood by all night when this yacht moored in a very dangerous position, taking off her crew at dawn. (1)(3) Crew: 5 Date of Loss Qualifier: A

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, p63 (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 779 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 901169 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 22 2024 2:19PM