Maritime record MWX2318 - Carl Johan

Stranded/Total Loss (4)
`Poole, 9th March: The CARL JOHAN, Werbroot, from Alicant to Gefle, was totally lost yesterday to the west of Christchurch Head. Part of the materials saved. (3) She ' ...was driven on shore and went to pieces immediately. The crew, consisting of six men and one boy, besides the captain and mate, were saved.' (5)

Sources (4) and (5) give the vessels name as CARL JOHN, the destination as Elsinore, a reported date of loss of 08- MAR-1824, and the place of loss as White Pits, Poole (where an unknown brig was lost at about the same time. This may in fact be a record of the same vessel.)

Master: Werbroot (3); Peter Walrood (1)(4)
Crew: 9

<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> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 12-MAR-1824, No.5889 (Serial). SWX8434.

<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> Sherbourne Mercury, p4, 15-MAR-1824 (Serial). SWX4820.

<6> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, 543 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<7> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 18 (Monograph). SDO16406.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1142955 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 7 2023 5:02PM