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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 17 NE 3 |
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| Type of record: | Maritime |
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| Name: | Charles |
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Summary
MERCHANT BRIG, lost 1852
Monument Types
- WRECK (lost 1852, Post Medieval - 1852 AD to 1852 AD (pre))
Full description
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Vessel stranded and lost in a hard easterly gale. Struck on the Pan Sand and immediately filled. After five hours, during which time the passengers and crew were expecting the vessel to break up, they were eventually saved by the smack NANCY, of Whitstable. Portions of the wreck were later brought into Whitstable, and the greater portion of her cargo was saved. The master had mistaken the North Foreland light for the Calais light, and keeping his ship too far from the land, fearing the Flemish sand banks, the vessel was in fact much further to the westward than had been calculated. Wind from the East hard gale. Owner: Capt. John Walters, Cardigan Master: Thomas James Crew: 9 Crew Lost: 0 Passengers: 46 Passengers Lost: 0 Date of Loss Qualifier: A (1). Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: LL.26.04.1852(R) (2).
<1> Board of Trade Casualty Returns, 1852, Page Nos. 69 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6357.
<2> United Kingdom shipwreck index, Page Nos. N/a (Bibliographic reference). SKE6340.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Bibliographic reference: Board of Trade Casualty Returns. 1852, Page Nos. 69. |
| <2> | Bibliographic reference: United Kingdom shipwreck index. Page Nos. N/a. |
