Maritime record MWX1850 - Saggitario
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Summary
1840 wreck of Austrian polacca or polacre which stranded on Chesil Beach while bound from Antwerp to Istanbul. Laden with sugar, textiles and logwood, she was a wooden sailing vessel.
Map
Type and Period (2)
Full Description
Stranded / Total Loss (2) Master: Zaffron Crew: 13 Date of Loss Qualifier: A Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: Shipwreck poster, Weymouth Library, Ref.L910.4.SA.3
NB: At this period the Austro-Hungarian Empire had a seaboard encompassing parts of Italy and the Balkan countries. The name SAGITTARIO and the name of the master suggest that the vessel belonged to an Italian port.
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 (4)
- <1> SWX5030 Index: Larn, Richard. 1992. United Kingdom shipwreck index. Extracted 23 November 1992.
- <2> 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.
- <3> SDO14012 Monograph: Cumming, E. 2014. The Portland Shipwreck and Maritime Incident Directory.
- <4> SDO14739 Digital archive: National Record of the Historic Environment. 900959.
Finds (0)
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
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Location
| Grid reference | SY 60500 79880 (point) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | SY67NW |
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Other Statuses/References
- Legacy UID: Dorset Sites and Monuments Record: 9 000 0495
- Legacy UID: National Monuments Record: SY 67 NW 56
- Legacy UID: National Record of the Historic Environment: 900959
Record last edited
Sep 19 2023 3:16PM