Maritime record MWX2403 - Zwaluw

Built: 1910 Builder: E J Smit andamp; Zoon Where Built: Westerbroek Propulsion: Sail, auxiliary twin 4 cylinder oil engines HP: Each engine 38 Machinery: Invincible Engine Works, Keighley Owner: E Deckers and Co. Master: Groenen (1)(2) Crew: 9 Crew saved: 9 (3) Date of Loss Qualifier: A Fired distress rockets after dragging ashore west of Hook Sand. Her master asked for a lifeboatman as a pilot and one was put aboard, but could not wear away from the land, and [the vessel] eventually drove ashore on the beach. The lifeboat managed to get alongside and take off the crew, who were landed at Poole at 3.30am. (1)(2)(3) Additional source: LR 1920 N 31173(Z)

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<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> Farr, Grahame, 1971, Wreck and rescue on the Dorset coast, p124 (Monograph). SWX1056.

<4> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 973 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1145934 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 6 2024 12:15PM