An eighteenth century sailing vessel carrying herring that sank off Chesil Beach in 1783 (1) The YOUNG DE HENLOFF CHRISTIENT HENDRICK drove on shore the 10 the inst. on Portland beach(2)
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> SWX8707
Digital archive: Le Pard, G. 1995-2003. Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database.
<2> SWX4541
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.
Legacy UID: Dorset Sites and Monuments Record: 9 000 1202
Record last edited
Dec 11 2007 12:03PM
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