Maritime record MWX2227 - Unidentified 1753 b Cargo Vessel

1753 wreck of cargo vessel which was wrecked in Durlston Bay; a wooden sailing vessel.

The third of three unidentified wrecks in Durlston Bay, two of which appear to be accounted for by a sloop and a brigantine reported as wrecked on 13-JAN-1753 (from a storm which occurred on or about 10-JAN-1753 over the south coast). This reprinted report may account for the time lag: `London, Feb. 15...We have an account from Swanage near Pool, that three vessels were lately lost near Luddlestone [sic] Bay, that for several days boats were employed to pick up every thing from the wrecks that could be got. There was a man found dead jammed in between the rocks, who had a ring of value on his finger, which the men took who brought the body on shore. They buried him in the bay at first, but he was taken up again, put into a coffin, and carried to Warham where he was buried. (1) The ARGYLE (q.v.) may have been either the sloop or the brigantine, or, from her cargo, the third vessel in company and thus, perhaps, this third unidentified vessel. Date of Loss Qualifier: A 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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