Maritime record MWX1852 - John 1855

Crew: 4 Crew Lost: 2 Date of Loss Qualifier: A Stranded / Total Loss (2) 24-DEC-1855, John a smack of 45 tons with a crew of 4 and a cargo of bricks was stranded in a SSW 9 on Chesil Beach, 2 crew were lost.(3) Date of loss given as the 24-DEC (3) against 30-DEC (1)(2)

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.

Net tonnage

Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 645 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<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> 1864, Parliamentary papers 1864, Harbour of Refuge, p116(558) (Monograph). SWX4606.

<4> Cumming, E, 2014, The Portland Shipwreck and Maritime Incident Directory (Monograph). SDO14012.

Record last edited

Jun 19 2015 12:29PM