Maritime record MWX4882 - Carrie Bell

The Schooner Carrie Bell was stranded on Hook Sands in 1904. (1)

Salvaged

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

<2> Boddy, M, 1975b, Dorset Shipwrecks part 2 (Article in serial). SWX7302.

<3> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 19 (Monograph). SDO16406.

Western Gazette, Friday, 9/12/1904: “On Sunday two vessels got on the Hook Sands at the entrance to Poole Harbour, and the City Masonic Club Lifeboat was summoned to their assistance. The first ship that went aground was the Carrie Bell (Captain Magor). She is a schooner, and from Plymouth to Poole with a cargo of limestone. About four o’clock on Sunday morning the vessel was making for the harbour in the teeth of a heavy gale, when she struck the Hook.” She later got off undamaged. A little more lifeboat detail available.

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Jan 9 2020 11:27AM