Maritime record MWX5013 - Antigua Star

Fishing vessel lost off Portland Bill in 1992.

Vertical datum: LAT
Horizontal datum: WGS 84
Quality of fix: Position approximate.
Charted as the ANTIGUA STAR, entire wreck in the Marine zone.

The UK Hydrographic Office charted her in the approximate position 50°30.80N, 002°32.15W, but amended their record to 'DEAD' when the vessel could not be found during a 2009 multi-beam survey. <1>

Source 2 gives her position as 50°30.46N, 002°32.04W.
'Foundered / Total loss.' (2) This source gives her length as 7.01m.

Nothing further is known about the vessel.

Date of loss qualifier: Actual date of loss

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> United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, 1992, Hydrographic Office wreck index (Index). SWX4837.

<2> Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 1 : Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset Section 5, South Devon (AH) (Monograph). SWX4666.

<3> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, 1035 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<4> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 9 (Monograph). SDO16406.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1521596 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 21 2023 12:47PM