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Old Winchelsea
DORSET
LYME REGIS The town's arched breakwater, "The Cobb", was destroyed.
DORSET
LYME REGIS The town's arched breakwater, "The Cobb", was destroyed together with fifty of the portsmen's precious boats. The storm also destroyed eighty houses in the small town.
DORSET
In a great storm, coupled with unusally high tides, which raged on
November 22nd and 23rd, 1824
known locally as "Great Gale", the waves rolled over Chesil Beach and reached half a mile inland; Fleet church and village were wrecked and hundreds of bodies were left on the beach where four ships were lost with all hands.
At Chiswell (or "Chisil") on Portland,
over thirty houses were demolished by the waves which rendered about a hundred others
uninhabitable - 26 people lost their lives, some swept out to sea, others buried under the remains of what had been thier homes.
The sloop Ebeneezer was cast onto the crest of the shingle of Chesil Beach. Hauled into the Fleet after the storm, the Ebeneezer still floated sufficiently to allow her to be towed to Portland for repairs.
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. . . the village of Chiswell was nearly destroyed, twenty-six of the inhabitants drowned and upwards of eighty houses damaged or washed down by a tremendous surf which broke over the Chesil Bank, and bore everything away with irresistible violence before it.
The sea ran down the streets of Chiswell with a sufficient depth of water to float a vessel of hundred tons burden; and the wrecks of the houses with the furniture of the poor inhabitants were everywhere strawed on the shore. The Ferry House leading to Portland was washed away and the ferryman drowned.
The Chesil Bank throughout its whole extent was lowered from twenty to thirty feet; the saines and boats of the poor fishermen of Wyke, as well as those of Portland, almost totally destroyed... the same storm destroyed the church at Fleet and threw down several houses but fortunately no lives were lost. The Colville West Indiaman of four hundred tons burden was totally wrecked in West Bay, and every soul on board perished, besides several minor wrecks too numerous to mention.
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| - account by the rector of Wyke Regis |
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| CHESIL BEACH |
| | Legend has it that the beach was created in the space of a single long night by a mighty storm, the likes of which has not been witnessed since. The sea threw up the shingle bar so fast that it trapped a portion of itself behind it, the Fleet, and lost the Isle of Portland. |
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