Time Period: 18th Century

HEREFORD

On the Bar at Poole. LARN, VLI. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 208: 22/03/1771.

HARMONY

Naval Ordnance Transport – See ‘Christian’s Fleet by Edwina Boult, ISBN 0-7524-2783-0. (Sherbourne & Yeovil Mercury, Monday 30th November, 1795. Stranded near Hill’s Harbour? See Christian’s Fleet

HAPPY RETURN

Captain Brooker. “Much of the cargo was saved” – Poole Harbour. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 2670: 05/12/1794.

HAPPY RETURN

Captain Vincent Kennard. Crew saved – Peveril Ledges, Swanage. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 3004: 17/10/1764.

HAPPY JENNET

Sailing Vessel – (LARN, VLI.) – Portland Roads. One boy lost. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 2515: 19/02/1760.

HANNAH

Naval Ordnance Transport – See ‘Christian’s Fleet by Edwina Boult, ISBN 0-7524-2783-0. (LARN, 1795) – 4 Miles E of Weymouth near Hills Harbour, Purbeck. Captain Hickman. “- carrying ordnance stores, was run foul of the transport HARMONY, which was in the same convoy, causing the HANNAH to go ashore near Hills harbour.” See Christian’s Fleet

HALSEWELL

English East Indiaman [10M] – (Detail in Dive Dorset: 216 p157: GPS; 50 34.10N; 02 01.75W – [A Circumstantial Narrative of the ‘Loss of the Halsewell’ (East Indiaman) Meriton, H. and Rogers, J. 1796. Captain Richard Pierce] Exceptionally detailed, interactive CD, Three English East Indiamen Wrecked off the Dorset Coast by Ed Cumming ISBN 0-9542104-3-3. … Read Article

GRIFFIN

Sailing Vessel – (LARN) – Mate, six crew and two women drowned – Chesil Beach near Abbotsbury. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 2271: 14/10/1757.

CHRISTIAN’S FLEET

Aeolus, Golden Grove, Catherine, Piedmont, Venus, Hannah, Harmony, Pitt and the Thomas Depiction of the Loss of the Catharine, Mrs Burns seen in the doorway In November 1795 the English fleet had left Spithead under the command of Rear Admiral Hugh Cloberry CHRISTIAN. The fleet consisted of about 200 heavily laden troops, ordnance transports and … Read Article

GOLDEN GROVE

Naval Transport – See ‘Christian’s Fleet by Edwina Boult, ISBN 0-7524-2783-0. Particularly p111 to p112 ) (Also LARN) – Chesil Beach, off Fleet. (Dor. Mag: 1975 No. 48) Captain Hodzard. Gentleman’s Magazine: 1795, p964. See Christian’s Fleet