Maritime record MWX2282 - Wild Swan

Foundered following collision with the PS BRODRICK CASTLE, of Weymouth. N.B. the same steamship had previously run down and sunk the EDWARD AND SARAH (15-MAY-1897) and the FRIENDS (04-APR-1889). (1)(3) Sources (1) and (3) give the vessel type as a yawl, and (2) as a yacht. Master: W White Crew: 3 Owner: W White, Swanage Date of Loss Qualifier: A

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> Board of Trade, 1909, Parliamentary papers 1909, Board of Trade Casualty Returns 1907, p133 (Monograph). SWX6554.

<3> 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.

<4> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 890 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1146701 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 11 2023 3:14PM