BLANDFORD
50 ton Sloop. Captain Benjamin Hillary. Cargo COPPER & Cargo TIN. LARN, VLI. May be more information in the refs. cited i.e. Sh. Merc: 24/04/1780. & Lloyds List: No. 1156.
Time Period: 18th Century
18th Century shipwrecks recorded by Deeper Dorset. 130 losses from this period off the Dorset coast, with dates, positions, depths and sources where known.
BISCAYE
Sailing Vessel – Captain Joseph de Allerde. Cargo, Wood. (LARN, VLI.) – Chesil Cove. No ref.
BETSEY
British Sailing Vessel – Captain Popham. (LARN, VLI.) – Portland. No ref.
BENJAMIN
Times: Saturday, December 30, 1786, Issue – “The Benjamin, Cross, from Weymouth to London, is lost near Weymouth; materials saved.” Ship Incident
BEE
West Indiaman – Captain Naisher. Poole Harbour. VLI. Ref. cited Lloyds List: No. 3054, 05/02/1799.
ARMS OF DENMARK
LARN, VLI. – Poole. Refs. cited Lloyds List: 1788 & 1799, 23/01/1753.
ARGYLL
Sailing Vessel – Captain Cole. Cargo, Tobacco Leaf & Whale Oil. LARN – Poole. Vessel beaten to pieces. Ref, cited Lloyds List: No. 1783 & 1786: 13/01/1753.
AMSTERDAM
220 ton Swedish Brigantine – (LARN) Captain Peter Dallsratun. Cargo, Raisons. Wrecked off Bexington, Chesil Beach. Drowned passenger ‘Rilan’ of Plymouth? Also five crew were drowned. Refs. cited Lloyds List: No. 1241 & Sh. Merc: 19/02/1781.
AEOLUS
Naval Transport – See ‘Christian’s Fleet by Edwina Boult, ISBN 0-7524-2783-0. Particularly p108 to p110) (Also LARN) – Opposite the Passage House, Chesil Cove. (Dor. Mag: 1975 No. 48 p10). Letter in Sh. Merc: 07/12/1795.
ADVENTURE
Sloop – Captain Parkinson. (LARN, VLI.) – Weymouth, near the Harbour. Ref. cited Lloyds List: No. 2606, 26/04/1794.