Maritime record MWX1534 - Flying Fish

Built: 1857 Where Built: Shoreham Master: T Wood, Lyme Crew: 5 Passengers: 4 Date of Loss Qualifier: A Vessel stranded and lost in wind conditions SSE force 9. (2) FLYING FISH, stranded in wind SSE 9 at the entrance to the Cobb.(3) Additional sources: Lyme Regis Register of Ships, 1786-1880; LR.1878-9 No.352(F);

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<1> Larn, Richard, 1992, United Kingdom shipwreck index, Extracted 23 November 1992 (Index). SWX5030.

<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> Parliamentary papers Vol 63, p 111 (265) (Monograph). SWX4648.

<4> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 764 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1143340 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 23 2024 4:19PM