Maritime record MWX2032 - La Michel

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Summary

English cargo vessel, 1366 Loss Date: 16/05/1366

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Type and Period (2)

Full Description

The ship LA MICHEL, driven ashore by the violence of the sea near Weymouth on its passage to Aquitaine, and her goods carried off by Dorset malefactors.(!) Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index. C.PR Edward III 1364-1367 p63 membrane 48d 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 (2)

  • --- Digital archive: Le Pard, G. 1995-2003. Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database. Shipwreck 314.
  • <1> 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.

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Location

Grid reference SY 6905 8065 (point)
Map sheet SY68SE

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Other Statuses/References

  • Legacy UID: Dorset Sites and Monuments Record: 9 000 0337
  • Legacy UID: National Monuments Record: SY 78 SW 90

Record last edited

Nov 26 2007 2:27AM

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