Maritime record MWX2193 - Happy Return 1764

English craft, wrecked on Peveril Point 1764

`...ran upon Peveral (sic) Ledge near Swanage, and was beat to pieces, but the people were saved. (2) Source (3) gives 17-OCT-1764, as the reported, rather than actual, date of loss. Master: Vincent Kennard Date of Loss Qualifier: A Original Dutch: 'Pool den 24 October. Den 17 deezer Maand is het Schip THE HAPPY RETURN van Ramsgate, Kapt. Vincent Renuard op de Zant-Bank by Swanage aan stukken gestooten, maar het Volk geborgen.' Translated by compiler: 'Pool, 24th October. On the 17th of this month the HAPPY RETURN of Ramsgate, Capt. Vincent Renuard, is beat to pieces on a sandbank near Swanage, but the people were saved.' (4) Master: Vincent Kennard (2); Vincent Renuard (4)Leeuwarder Courant, 03-NOV-1764, No.641, 3 accessed via < http://www.archiefleeuwardercourant.nl/ > on 28-JUL-2009 Date of Loss Qualifier: Actual date of loss 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.

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