Maritime record MWX2077 - Dorothy

`Went ashore in broad daylight without any real cause, except that the master had come too close inshore to cheat the tide, and is best described as the blunderings of a coastal schooner. She struck close to the spot where the HARDY lay, then got off and drifted down to the reef where the TYNE lay in 1857. On the night of the 17th, she went to pieces and no effort was made to save anything. (1)(2) `The DOROTHY, of Teignmouth, Barton, from Swansea to Southampton...is on shore at Chapmans Pool. (3) `...has become a total wreck. (4)

Master: Barton

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> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 16-FEB-1861, No.14624 (Serial). SWX8434.

<4> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 23-FEB-1861, No.14630 (Serial). SWX8434.

<5> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 668 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 27 (Monograph). SDO16406.

‘Dorset County Chronical, Thursday, 28/2/1861 – “Corfe Castle; The Brigantine Dorothy which we noticed in our last, came to pieces on Sunday night, 17th, at about 11 o’clock, and was washed ashore in Freshwater Bay. As she was only pine-built, and nearly all her timbers rotten, she became a more complete wreck than the Hardy. The coal which formed the cargo is washing up on the beach at every tide. The wreck was intrusted to the care of the coastguards, who have saved all they could of her; it was sold by action on Thursday, and realized £36.”’

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 901083 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 4 2024 5:24PM