Deeper Dorset

ISIS

ISIS? from St. Ubes is totally wrecked on Portland Beach. Morning Post, Thursday, November 6, 1823, Issue 16498. See IRIS above.

Swedish Brig – Captain Balksuck St Ubes to Stockholm – Chesil Cove. Wrecked opposite the Masonic Hall. Five of the crew of eight (three men drowned, master and three men saved??) were drowned. Salisbury & Winchester Journal: 10/11/1823.

IRENE

Barque – Pilot taken on at Cowes and a storm forced her to shelter in Portland Roads. Due to the combination of heavy snow, the gale and huge seas, the breakwater light was concealed and the vessel struck one of the piles and went to pieces. The pilot jump off when they hit the pier … Read Article

IO

“Brig of Yarmouth in ballast from Topsham to Cardiff is on shore at Portland Beach, crew saved” – (Caledonian Mercury 20th December, 1806, Issue 13258)

INO

Brig – (LARN) Opposite Brunswick Buildings, Weymouth. Captain Turner. Cargo COAL. Ref. DCC: 25/01/1855. & Lloyd’s Register: 1852 No. 73(I).

INDUSTRY

Smack – (LARN, VLI.) – Swanage Bay. Ref. BOT: USC 1862 p672-3.

INDUSTRIOUS

Hook Sands, Poole Harbour. Note: Crew, including Captain Dominy, saved by Pilot John Wills, a pilot, in a small boat. Refs. Dor. Mag: 1976 No. 50 p18. & Salisbury & Winchester Journal Newspaper: 20/10/1823.

INDUS

Smack – (LARN, VLI.) Old Harry Ledge, Swanage. Ref. BOT: USC 1862 Vol. 1 Appx. p673.

IMPERATRICE

Sloop – Captain J. Roberts. Studland Ledge, Old Harry Point. LARN, VLI. Ref. BOT: 1877 Appx. Pts. I-IV p108(308).

IBEX

Times: Tuesday, September 8, 1891, Issue 33424 – Ibex joins the Great Western Railway Company’s Channel Island fleet. MMI. Misc News