Maritime record MWX2408 - Swanage

Stranded/Total Loss (4) `...is on shore in Studland Bay, and expected to become a wreck. (3) Source (4) gives the reported date of loss as the month of FEB-1841. 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> Board of Trade, 1841, Parliamentary papers 1841, Board of Trade Select Committee on Shipwreck, p17 (Monograph). SWX5875.

<3> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 09-FEB-1841, No.8400 (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> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 606 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1147012 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 6 2024 12:33PM