Maritime record MWX5100 - Judy Two

A sailing yacht that sank in 1979 off Anvil point (1)

Position 50 31 45N 1 58 05W taken from (1)

'Foundered / Total Loss' (1)

'Sank 190° 4 miles from Anvil Point. (Lloyds List 11.10.79) Very small craft.' Was charted by the UK Hydrographic Office as the JUDY TWO at the approximate position of 50°31'.785 N, 001°58'.165 W in water 33m deep. (2)

This position was amended to DEAD however, when her remains could not be found by multi-beam survey carried out in 2009. (2)

No further information about the vessel could be found.
Date of loss quaifier: 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> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, 1027 (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> https://www.wrecksite.eu/Wrecksite.aspx, Accessed 21-JUL-2010 (Digital archive). SDO20096.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1521371 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 16 2024 12:04PM