“GIRDLENESS Steamer arrived at Portland on Monday evening assisted by steamer RUTHLIN of Glasgow after collision with SAPPHIRE of and from London for New York about 12 miles W. of Portland. GIRDLENESS had to be beached her main compartment being cut clean through and her fore compartment full of water. The captain has arranged with … Read Article
Brigantine – Captain G. A. Chaddock. Cargo, Guano. (LARN) ‘After stranding on Kimmeridge Ledge, several attempts were made to get her off. The Liverpool and London Salvage Association are in charge of her, and the tug ADMIRAL has taken off part of her stores and landed them at Poole.’ Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. p99 & … Read Article
A 1,347 ton Hartlepool Steamship bound from Huelva to Rotterdam. [14M] – (Dive Dorset: 128 p105: GPS; 50 32.79N, 02 27.10W) – Hit the rocks between Tar Rocks & Blacknor Point. Crew and two passengers were saved. (Details in LARN) Cargo IRON (Pyrites). (LePard: pages 94 & 95) Refs. (Weymouth Library Photo L.910.4.GE2 negative No.38); … Read Article
Barque – (Interesting detail in LARN) – Captain, Martin De La Berre. Crew & Passengers saved by the Rocket Apparatus. Note: Receiver at Weymouth was R. G. Cutesman. Salvage by a Captain Cosens. Chapman’s Pool. Reports in Southern Times: 24/02/1866 & 06/03/1866 Times: Saturday, February 17, 1866, Issue 25424 – Weymouth, Thursday: The French bark … Read Article
Smack – (LARN, VLI.) – Lyme Regis. BOT: USC 1862 p676-7.
Times: Thursday, November 5, 1829, Issue 14063 – Manby Apparatus used on the Sloop ‘George’.
Brigantine – Cargo wine. Lifeboat sent out to the rescue collided with the vessel and overturned. It righted itself but one of the Coastguard officers, Mr Martin was drowned. All the crew were saved. – 3 miles E of Lyme Regis. Refs. Lloyds List: 10/01/1854 P377 & The Times Newspaper: 11/01/1854.
Smack – Captain C. Baker. Cargoo STONE. (LARN, VLI.) Stranded and sank near Swanage. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1890 Appx. C Table 1 p128: NLR.
Sloop – Captain J. Pope. Stranded near Old Harry Point. LARN, VLI. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1877 Appx. I-IV p109(309).
Fishing Smack – Captain H. Frost. (LARN) – Sank following a collision with the S.S. BRODRICK CASTLE of Poole. 2 miles W of Christchurch. See WILD SWAN. & EDWARD & SARAH. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1889 Appx. C Table 1.