Deeper Dorset

DOVE

Weymouth Sloop. – Studland Roads. Refs. Dor. Mag: No. 50, 1976, p18. (See also Weymouth Library, Diary of Peter Bussell, 18.) & Farr: p113.

Schooner – Cargo COAL. (LARN) Ran too close inshore and struck near the HARDY, got off and drifted off to where the TYNE lay 1857 and finally broke up on the 17th. Nothing was saved. Ed. Can find no references to the TYNE. This source is unknown, more research needed. No ref. in LARN?

DON PEDRO

Schooner – Captain McMillings. (LARN, VLI.) – Rope Lake Head, Kimmeridge. Ref. Legg: p35.

DON

Times: Tuesday, December 3, 1867, Issue 25984 – Extreme Gales Weymouth & Portland. Barque Alice Graham, Captain Morgan with Pig Iron ashore at Warbarrow. Towed into Portland Harbour by the Commodore, Steam Tug. Steamer Don, blown ashore, rescued and brought into Weymouth Harbour. Ship Incidents.

DISPATCH

Sailing Vessel – Captain Notter and one crew lost. (LARN, VLI.) – Near Weymouth. Ref. cited Lloyds List: No. 4101: 09/11/1800.

DILIGENCE of Portsmouth

DILIGENCE of Portsmouth [15/11/1842] – Times Also the Morning Post November 16, 1842, Issue 22411 “About 2 o’clock on Thursday morning, the smack Diligence, of Portsmouth, of 30 tons burthen, bound to Southampton from Guernsey, laden with potatoes, cames on shore on Chisel Beach near Portland, in a squall of wind from the S.S.W. It … Read Article

DILIGENCE

Sailing Vessel – Captain Russel. Cargo, Wheat. LARN “driven ashore by French cutter / privateer”. Check ref. Sh. Merc: 21/10/1782 – St Alban’s Head.

DIANA

Steamship – (LARN, VLI.) – Portland Bill. Note: First Steamship? Check Ref. Southern Times: 12/10/1878, p4 & Lloyd’s Register: 1877-8 No. 275(D)

DEVONIA

DEVONIA [31/01/1884] – Steamer DEVONIA in collision with DARLINGTON. Report in the DCCs: 07/02/1884 & 14/02/1884. NIL. Report in the DCC:07/02/1884 & DCC:14/02/1884. “Collision Between Two Steamers – On Thursday morning a report was spread two steamers had been in collision off the Breakwater, and that one of them was in danger of foundering. The … Read Article

DEMETRIUS

Devon Sailing Vessel – Captain Dunsford. Cargo, Pit Props. (LARN) – Watch house, near Bridport. Note: Mortar Apparatus fired a line, but because of the strong SW gale, it blew it a considerable distance to the east and into the water. Whereupon, the mate of a ship in the harbour rushed into the sea, took … Read Article