Time Period: 19th Century

LEMUEL

Brig – Stripped of her stores and rigging on the shore. Studland Bay, Swanage. LARN & BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1852, p197-199.

LE JEAN BART

The French Smack ‘Le Jean Bart’ with a cargo of hides wrecked at the base of the cliffs at Burton Bradstock. Five of the nine crew were saved by local villagers hauling them to safety up the cliffs. (Fleming: p23) Victim of the 1838 Gale. Ref. Dor. Mag: 1975 No. 49 p23. From the registers … Read Article

LE FOI

French Smack – The Mixen, Weymouth Harbour. DCC: 12/02/1857. “On Monday week the French fishing smack LE FOI, of Dieppe, went ashore on the “Mixen”, at the entrance of the Harbour. The crew appear to have mistaken the channel which leads into the port. As the accident happened at nearly high water, all attempts to … Read Article

LAVONIA

Yawl – Captain W. Wellum. – (LARN, VLI.) – Portland Roads. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1898 Appx. C Table 1 p139.

LAUREATE

Cutter/Yacht – Captain Strickland. Details in LARN; DCP: 31/10/1887, [Southern Times – Special Edition 31/10/1887] & Dor. Mag: 1975 No.49, p47. – Portland Breakwater. Two survivors. Check to see if DCP is DCC. See also Times The Laureate – 1887 Taken from Shipwrecks by M. Attwooll, p52. “A year after the fortunate escape of the … Read Article

LAURA

Brig from Prince Edward Island – (LARN, VLI.) – Captain listed as J. Nicholson. 20 miles S of Bridport Harbour. Ref. Lloyd’s Register: 1866, No. 143.

LARK

Sailing Vessel Flag Head, Sandbanks, Poole Harbour. LARN & Farr: p114, VLI.

LANOMA

665 Ton Iron Hulled Barque 1888 – (Details in LARN) (Weymouth Library Photo L.910.4.LA2, Neg. No.3. – Chesil Beach, opposite Fleet. Note: Rocket Apparatus deployed. Tombstone in Newstead Cemetery, Weymouth. This ship once held the record for the ‘Australia Run’ Twelve of her eighteen man crew were lost including Captain Wittingham. Picture of wreckage in … Read Article

LA MERCURIA

500 ton French Sailing Vessel – (LARN) – Chesil Cove. Note: Very similar to MERCURE ? Seventeen of the crew were drowned and were buried in one mass grave by the main east gate of St George’s churchyard. This reference appears to have come from Dor. Mag: 1976 No. 50 p18. (Burials: 178, 9th March, … Read Article

LADY SONDES

Ketch – (LARN) Captain S. Millsted. Cargo China Clay. Off Portland Bill. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1888 Appx C Table 1 p107.