Maritime record MWX5176 - Railway Line Wreck

May have been a wooden vessel. Not in Shipwreck Index. Suggest the Autumn, sank 7/7/1908. Position from Martin Openshaw "The wreck only shows on a good quality sounder as a small hard area in the sea bed, there is nothing standing more than 0.5 metres off the sea bed. We did a reasonable visual search of the area and found one small piece of machinery, (possibly part of a winch) and a square link connected to a chain. All the rest was buried in the sand. There was some rope, most likely from diver activities a few years ago, this was attached to part of the wreckage again buried in a least 12 inches of sand." (1)

Position 50 34.52 N 2 11.85W taken from (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.

<1> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, 110 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<2> Hinchcliffe, J and V, 1999, Dive Dorset: a diver guide (3rd Edition), 195 (p147) (Monograph). SWX1.

Record last edited

Sep 12 2008 1:45AM