Maritime record MWX5185 - Sartorius

A motor yacht (sail with auxiliary engine) that sank off Worbarrow Tout in 1978 (1)

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.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Records, SY 87 NW 22 (Index). SDO131.

<1> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, 1026 (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.

'Stranded / Total Loss'.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1521369 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

‘1978 wreck of British Yacht which stranded at the Eastern end of Warbarrow Bay. She was a sailing vessel with auxiliary motor.’

<4> Royal National Lifeboat Institution website (Digital archive). SDO14747.

'1978 - The Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum was awarded to Second Coxswain Victor James Pitman for rescuing the two crew from the yacht Sartorious, which went aground in Warbarrow Bay.'

Record last edited

Jul 29 2016 1:30PM