Maritime record MWX5061 - Four Friends

An eighteenth century brig, run ashore in 1768. (1)

' loaded with 186 casks of sugar .. Was drove on Shore this morning on Portland Beach in a hard gale of Wind, about three miles to the Westward of that Island. Every thing possible will be done to save the Ship and Cargo; she was blown out of Tingmouth [sic] Road late on Friday night, while the Captain and part of the crew were on Shore.' (2)

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, 399 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<2> 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.

<3> Cumming, E, 2014, The Portland Shipwreck and Maritime Incident Directory (Monograph). SDO14012.

Record last edited

Jun 19 2015 12:28PM