Maritime record MWX5140 - Mary Ann 1851

Mary Ann was a smack lengthened into a schooner. She had been built by Henry Chard of Lyme in 1809. Information from a watercolour of the wreck. Captain Horner. May have been salvaged. <1>

<1> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, 1112 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<2> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list (Serial). SWX8434.

A gale on Sunday night [19th] in Dorset as well as elsewhere.

<3> 1817, Durham County Advertiser (Serial). SDO14749.

`Lyme, Jan. 20. Yesterday it blew a fresh gale from SSE, and during the night increased to a hurricane, which occasioned the highest tide ever known here...Soon after daylight...at 8 o'clock all the walls (in front of the town), breakwaters, and about 300 feet of the centre part of the harbour gave way, when the stone cutting the cables of the vessels, the following were driven ashore and totally lost, viz. VOLANTE, and the MARY, of Lyme; UNION, of Exeter...'

<4> 1976, Dorset magazine : the county magazine vol. 50 (Article in serial). SWX4560.

Stranded/total wreck or loss.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1344826 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 22 2024 2:41PM