The Flora, Captain Carpenter, from Newfoundland for Poole, was lost on Portland Beach where three of the crew perished. Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras quoting Times of 19/1/1804 (1)
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)
<1> SWX4795
Monograph: Grocott, T. 1997. Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras.
<2> SWX8707
Digital archive: Le Pard, G. 1995-2003. Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database. 1508.
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SY 67641 75130 (point)
Map sheet
SY67NE
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Legacy UID: Dorset Sites and Monuments Record: 9 000 1161
Record last edited
Sep 19 2023 4:15PM
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