' - a prize vessel.' Date of Loss Qualifier: R Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index. BOT.SCS.Wk.1828 Appx.8 p326

`...a prize vessel.' (1)

Wrecked on the coast of Kent, registered E1. (3)

`Deal, 22nd July. The LITTLE FAMILY, Bedwell, of and for Exeter from Sunderland, was wrecked yesterday near Dungeness. Crew and part of the materials landed here.' (4)

Sources (1) and (2) express the date of loss as the year of 1828 only and the place of loss as on the coast of Kent.

Master: Bedwell (1)(2)(4)

Date of Loss Qualifier: Actual date of loss

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

<2> Larn, Richard and Bridget, 1995, Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 2 : Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Sussex, Kent (Mainland), Kent (Downs), Goodwin Sands, Thames (Bibliographic reference). SKE31910.

<3> 1836, Parliamentary papers - 1836, Select Committee on Shipwreck (Miscellaneous Material). SKE56009.

<4> Lloyd's, 1969, Lloyd's list 1741-1945 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6342.