Maritime record MWX2365 - Jeune Erneste

`Another fine rescue was made by the RNLB. MANLEY WOOD, the first lifeboat to be stationed at Poole, when she went out in a heavy SSE gale to the rescue of two small French vessels stuck on the sands, one either side of the harbour entrance. It was reported that they had mistaken Poole for Portsmouth, whence they were bound, but this is difficult to believe in view of the very different surroundings of the two ports. The lifeboat crew refloated the lugger AUGUSTINE, and brought her and her crew of four into the harbour. Going back out to the second vessel, the JEUNE ERNESTE, they found her abandoned and full of water. (3) 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, p117 (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 701 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 901104 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 15 2023 3:08PM