Maritime record MWX1687 - Unidentified 1882 Dutch Galliot

Sank following collision with the Liverpool-registered barque COMADRE in a NE gale. (1-3) Crew: 5 Crew Lost: 5 Date of Loss Qualifier: A) (4)

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> Farr, Grahame, 1971, Wreck and rescue on the Dorset coast, 41-42 (Monograph). SWX1056.

<3> Board of Trade, 1884, Parliamentary papers 1884, Board of Trade Casualty Returns, p132 (Monograph). SWX5100.

<4> 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.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 901164 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 29 2024 4:52PM