Maritime record MWX2233 - Sarah and Mary

Vessel may have been refloated and saved. (1)(3) `The SARAH AND MARY, Roch, from Limerick to Pool and London, run on shore in going into Pool, and proving very leaky, is obliged to unload to repair. (2) Master: Roch Date of Loss Qualifier: R

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, 14-MAY-1773, No.432 (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> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 411 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900520 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 15 2023 3:11PM