Maritime record MWX1725 - Sophia

`Wind about south-east, blowing strong; master and boy drowned, masters body only recovered. (2) `Portland, 7th Dec. The SOPHIE, from Havre for Dunkirk, is totally wrecked here - 2 of the crew saved. (3) Source (2) spells the name of the vessel as SOPHIA. Crew: 4 Crew Lost: 2 Date of Loss Qualifier: A Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: DCC 09 12 1830

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> 1976, Dorset magazine : the county magazine vol. 50, p19 (Article in serial). SWX4560.

<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> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 10-DEC-1830, No.6593 (Serial). SWX8434.

<4> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 567 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1231746 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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