Maritime record MWX1637 - Unidentified 1793 French Brigantine

The CRESCENT was bound from Salonica, having called at Falmouth en route. (LL.12 and 15.03.1793) Date of Loss Qualifier: A (1) `...a prize to the 5th rate 36 gun HMS CRESCENT. (2) Weymouth March 18th: Yesterday was driven on shore near Portland Castle a French brigantine, burthen about 90 tons, laden with salt, bound from Rochelle to Rouen, a prize to the CRESCENT frigate; the cargo will be entirely lost and the ship has received considerable damage. The crew are all saved. (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> 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> Sherbourne Mercury, p3, 25-MAR-1793 (Serial). SWX4820.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900558 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 12 2023 1:54PM