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Tragic shipwreck off Dorset granted protection status

The East India Company had a close association with the Wordsworth family, and it is believed that John Wordsworth embarked on a life at sea to help support his brother’s writing career.

Duncan Wilson, chief executive of Historic England, told PA news agency:

“This wreck has an evocative story to tell about the life and sorrow of one of our most renowned poets, William Wordsworth.”

References to John can be found in some of his brother’s works, such as in The Character of the Happy Warrior, Stepping Westward and Elegiac Stanzas.

John captained two successful voyages on the Earl of Abergavenny to China before the tragic incident which took his life and that of around 250 crewmen and passengers.

The ship’s cargo was estimated to be worth £70,000 at the time – approximately £7.5 million today.

Many of the artefacts from the wreck are housed at the Portland Museum.


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