Maritime record MWX2362 - Blanche

Foundered/Total Loss (3) Source (3) gives destination as Studland. Owner: C Wilcox, Studland, Dorset. Master: C Wilcox Crew: 1, Crew Lost: 1.

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> Board of Trade, 1890, Parliamentary papers 1890-1, Board of Trade Casualty Returns, p107 (Monograph). SWX5991.

<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, 817 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 14 (Monograph). SDO16406.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900815 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 7 2023 4:54PM