Maritime record MWX5127 - License to Kill

A sloop that sank off St Aldhelm's Head in 1981. Position dived by Martin Openshaw 2001, nothing found.(1)

'Sank having caught fire and broke up in the shallows... DECCA position (SW chain) Red (H) 1.8; Purple (G) 61.4' (2)

Source 2 gives her length as 9.75m; Source 4 as 9.8m.

No more information about the vessel can be found.

Position 50 34.4N -2 3.83W taken from (3)

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, 158 (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> Hinchcliffe, J and V, 1999, Dive Dorset: a diver guide (3rd Edition) (Monograph). SWX1.

<4> https://www.wrecksite.eu/Wrecksite.aspx, 18702 > Accessed 21-JUL-2010 (Digital archive). SDO20096.

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

Record last edited

Feb 22 2024 9:15AM