Maritime record TR 45 NE 93 - Mary White

Summary

BRITISH MERCHANT BARQUE, 1851

Location

Grid reference TR 4644 5793 (point) NLO
Map sheet TR45NE
District DOVER, KENT

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Full Description

`...this vessel a new brig, owned by her captain, was making her first voyage when she was totally lost on the inside of the Sands with her captain and two of the crew, seven having been saved by the Ramsgate hovelling lugger BUFFALO GAL, which at the same time cleverly managed to save the Broadstairs lifeboat, which had been badly stove during her battle with the elements. The lugger returned to Ramsgate with the rescued men and lifeboat crew and the damaged lifeboat in tow. The circumstances of this wreck were peculiar and melancholy. The captain had only recently lost his wife and was proceeding to meet his only daughter at Southampton. The first intelligence the poor girl received on the subject was that her father and ship were lost on the Goodwins.'(MGS.) This account may be in error since the Board of Trade states the vessel built 17 years before being wrecked and was therefore not new; different Board of Trade accounts give different crew loss figures. Year Built: 1834 Owner: Thomas Nutting Crew: 10 Crew Lost: 3 Date of Loss Qualifier: A Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index. BOT.USC.1851 Appx. p556-7; BOT.Wk.Rtn.1850-61 Summary; MGS. p174


<1> United Kingdom shipwreck index, Page Nos. N/a (Bibliographic reference). SKE6340.

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  • <1> Bibliographic reference: United Kingdom shipwreck index. Page Nos. N/a.

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Record last edited

Feb 25 1994 12:00AM