Deeper Dorset

RICHARD

Sailing Vessel. See LARN, listed twice, as Off Portland & Poole Harbour? Refs. BOT: SCS Wk. 1833 Appx 8 p363(748) & Appx 7 p304. NLR.

REWARD

Schooner Captain Peake – Studland Bay. LARN, VLI. Ref. cited BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1842 Appx. 3 p31.

RESOLUTION

Sailing Vessel – Captain Davis. (LARN, VLI.) – Near Weymouth. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 4015: 22/11/1799.

RENAUD

French Brig – Chapman’s Pool. LARN, VLI. See ref. Legg: p35.

REBECCA

Ketch – Cargo GRANITE (Cut Blocks) – (LARN, VLI.) – Portland Race. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1866 Table 21 p32(410).

RAZOR GRINDER

Wrecked on shore near Poole. LARN, VLI. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 4319: 17/01/1809.

DCC: 17/11/1825 “Early last Thursday morning and the whole of the day it blew a violent gale of wind E.N.E. accompanied with sleet and rain. RAPID, brig, Fowler, Master of Weymouth and outward bound, sailed the preceding evening. Six sail were driven ashore near the Castle at Portland. The ROSE, revenue cruiser, Captain Johnson, and … Read Article

RAN-D

Loaded with a cargo of logwood the vessel was wrecked in Chesil Cove. (LePard: p31 VLI) NIL.

RAN

Norwegian Barque – Captain A. Jorgensen. Cargo, Hardwood. (LARN) – Broke up on Tar Rocks, Chesil Cove. See also S. S. EDISON. Refs. Lloyd’s Casualty Returns: 1894 p11(d); BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1894 Appx. C Table 1 p151 & Lloyd’s Register: 1891-2 No. 78(R)

RACHEL

Brig – Cargo STONE. Run down and sunk with all on board by a new screw steam ship, belonging to The London & Liverpool Steam Packet Co. The Brig was identified by some papers found floating. Her crew consisted of the master, three seamen and a boy. (LARN) Portland. Interestingly the Steam Packet’s not named? … Read Article