Maritime record MWX1562 - Le Jean Bart (Jaubert)
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Summary
French smack, 1838
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Type and Period (2)
Full Description
The passenger was a Spanish boy, aged 13 years. Among the dead in the crew was a Frederic Gilbert. Having failed to run the vessel on the beach, she finished up driven under 200-foot high cliffs, where she was pounded by heavy seas. Ropes were lowered from the clifftop and five men hauled to safety before the vessel went to pieces, drowning the rest of her crew. (1)(3) Sources (1)(3) give the name of the vessel as JEAN BART. `The JAUBERT, from Algiers to Havre, was totally wrecked near this port yesterday afternoon; 5 of the crew saved, 3 drowned. (4) Crew: 8 Passengers: 1 Lives Lost: 4 (1)(3); 3 (4) Date of Loss Qualifier: R
Interpreted as a French merchant sailing vessel (smack). (5)
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.
Sources/Archives (7)
- <1> SWX5030 Index: Larn, Richard. 1992. United Kingdom shipwreck index. Extracted 23 November 1992.
- <2> SWX4562 Article in serial: 1975. Dorset magazine : the county magazine vol. 49. Vol 49. p23.
- <3> SWX4541 Monograph: 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.
- <4> SWX8434 Serial: 1745 onwards. Lloyds list. 01-DEC-1838, No.7719.
- <5> SWX8707 Digital archive: Le Pard, G. 1995-2003. Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database. 590.
- <6> SDO15144 Unpublished document: Scott, G. 2006. West Bay, Dorset. Undesignated Site Assessment, Final Report. 24.
- <7> SDO14739 Digital archive: National Record of the Historic Environment. 900948.
Finds (0)
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
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Location
| Grid reference | SY 46110 90200 (point) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | SY49SE |
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Other Statuses/References
- Legacy UID: Dorset Sites and Monuments Record: 9 000 0748
- Legacy UID: National Monuments Record: SY 49 SE 95
- Legacy UID: National Record of the Historic Environment: 900948
Record last edited
Feb 20 2024 6:56AM