Maritime record MWX2202 - Wild Wave

English brigantine, 1875

`At 4.30am, dead low water, the WILD WAVE was making for Poole with a fair southerly breeze, when she suddenly struck with great violence on jagged rocks off Peveril Point. Although there was a thick haze, the coastguard saw the accident, ordered two gigs to be manned and the rocket apparatus taken to the cliffs. The second line fired fell between the masts and was secured, but no sooner had this been done than the vessel fell over on her beam ends, breaking the rocket line. Another line was fired across the wreck, but there was now no sign of life, although a steam tug and a Branksea lifeboat which managed to reach the vessel, found her crew still aboard and alive. Some time later the Poole lifeboat came into the bay under oars and sail, by which time nothing of the brigantine was left other than a few broken spars. (5) Built:1853 Where Built: Bridport Crew: 5 Date of Loss Qualifier: A Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: ST 30 01 1875 ®

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