Schooner – (LARN) Of interest! Cargo STONE, sank at anchor, crew saved. Divers employed to get up cargo, after which the hull was weighed, floated into shallow water and abandoned. Portland Roads. Admiralty Wk. Rtn. 1853 p48-49 SCHOONER SUNK – At an early hour on Saturday morning last, the Charlotte, a small schooner lying at … Read Article
Snow – Captain C. Donkin. (LARN) – Portland. May be more information in DCC: 05/04/1827 & Lloyd’s Register: 1827 No. 452(C)
Cutter – Captain J. Summers. Cargo, Barley. (LARN) Ran ashore in thick for near the lifeboat station and later due to wide and tide was carried on the Broad Bench, some distance off Kimmeridge Ledge. The boat overturned drowning one man, the master held on until rescued by the lifeboat. Ref. Southern Times: 27/03/1886; BOT: … Read Article
Sailing Vessel – Captain White. (LARN, VLI) – Weymouth. Ref. cited Lloyds List: No. 4216: 01/01/1808.
DCC: 04/03/1869 “During the last few days the carcases of several bullocks have been washed on shore in this neighbourhood. On Wednesday, the 17th, two were cast up at St. Alban’s Head, three at Kimmeridge, and one at Langton. On Thursday, the 18th, three bullocks and a hog were washed on shore at Worbarrow; on … Read Article
Times: Thursday, May 15, 1884, Issue 31134 – “The Catherine and Alice schooner, of Nevin, from Middlesborough, with coals, was picked up derelict off St. Alban’s Head at 4 a.m. yesterday by the William Martyn, schooner, of Padstow, which took her into Weymouth. The crew is safe.” Note: Issue 31207 ‘Scuttling a Ship’ “Judgment was … Read Article
Arbroath Schooner – Captain J. Stevenson. Cargo China Clay from Par to Sunderland – (LARN) – Kimmeridge Ledges. Refs. Farr: p85 & Lloyd’s Register: 1878-9 No. 418(C).
Sailing Vessel from Bristol to London – Crew saved (Caledonian Mercury January 14, 1809, Issue 13586) – Portland Beach. Ref. cited Lloyds List: No. 4317: 10/01/1809.
Shields Barque – (LARN) Very little cargo found despite carrying 800 tons of cargo coal and oil products. Lyme Regis Lifeboat rescued 14. Wrecked opposite the Fleet Coastguard Station. Limited information in; Farr: p22. & Check Southern Times: 30/11/1872. ‘Cassibelaunus‘ – 1872 LOSS OF THE CASSIBELAUNUS THE TIMES 28 NOVEMBER 1872 ISSUE 27546 THE GALE … Read Article
West Indiaman – Cargo, Cotton & Rum. Lost a few yards from the beach, seventeen of twenty bodies recovered – Chesil Beach, off Fleet. Victim of the 1824 Gale. Sh. Merc: 29/11/1824. (Also LARN)