Maritime record MWX5164 - PAS C182

A Royal Navy dumb barge that sank off Portland Bill in 1971 (1)

Vertical datum: WGS 84
Horizontal datum: LAT
Quality of fix: Position precisely known.

No more is known about the PAS (C.182) than that she was a 'dumb barge' which 'sank whilst under tow.' (3)

She 'lies in an area of static fishing gear' (2) according to a 2003 Gardline survey, although it is unclear by what means she has been identified.

She is charted at 50°26'.035 N, 002°28'.579 W at a depth of 38m in water 46m deep, as PAS (C.182), entire wreck.

Date of loss qualifier: Unknown.

No additional sources of information are cited by either 2 or 3.

Has been attributed to a 'named location' in error, position shown is as charted.

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, 1020 (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, 18553 > Accessed 19-JUL-2010 (Digital archive). SDO20096.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1521287 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 11 2024 3:33PM