Maritime record MWX2347 - Arms of Denmark (Queen of Denmark)

`The ARMS OF DENMARK, from Bristol for Hamburg, is lost off Pool. (2) Foundered/Total Loss (3) `London, January 20th...THE QUEEN OF DENMARK, bound from Bristol to Hamburg, is lost off Poole. (4) Source (3) expresses the reporting date as that of source (2), i.e. 23-JAN-1753.

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, 23-JAN-1753, No.1788 (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> Sherbourne Mercury, 22-JAN-1753 (Serial). SWX4820.

<5> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, 375 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 10 (Monograph). SDO16406.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900481 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 21 2023 12:54PM