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.
Sailing Ship – Owned at Liverpool but registered at St. John, New Brunswick. Captain J. Purdy. (Clarke: GPS; 50 35.43N; 01 58.00W) & (Detail also in LARN) Attempted rescue by Rocket Apparatus from the cliff. 0.5 miles from Anvil Point, Swanage. Other refs. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1882 Appx. Pts. I-IV p128; Legg: p77 & Good … Read Article
Times: Wednesday, January 2, 1867, Issue 25697 – The East Coast-The Schooner, Alexander of Weymouth driven ashore at Great Yarmouth, crew saved. Ship Incident of a Local Vessel.
Print attached to the Narrative. Re-mastered from the original by Semi Vine. The Alexander was the third (known) English East Indiaman wrecked off the Dorset coast. The Alexander was not a regular East India Company vessel, but a Bombay trader hired on Company business; what they call a ‘Bombay Country Ship. [1] It was a … Read Article
Launch – (LARN, VLI.) – New Pier, Portland. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1897 Appx. C Table 1 p140. See also Times: Times: Thursday, March 4, 1897, Issue 35142 – Portland, Dorset, March 3 – Tug Alert parted from her mooring and drove on pier and sunk. Barge Thistle parted from the quay and has grounded. … Read Article
Schooner – (LARN) – First recorded wreck on Portland Breakwater. Refs. DCC: 23/02/1860 & BOT USC: 1860 p614-5
French Sailing Vessel – (LARN) – Cargo Wine. Lost W of Lulworth Cove. Outstanding rescue of seven by the St Alban’s Head Coastguards, Lieut. W. Parsons was awarded the Institution’s Silver Medal and his seven crew rewarded. See also WEMYSS. It is assumed they launched from Chapman’s Pool. 1838 GALE. Farr: p78.
Times: Wednesday, December 1, 1824, Issue 12512 – Weymouth, Nov 28: Two Sisters, from Malaga, of and bound for Hamburg, laden with fruit was wrecked in the west Bay off Abbotsbury at eleven o’clock on the Monday night. The master and three men are saved, one was drowned; The Sally of Portsmouth, is lost in … Read Article
Schooner – Captain Hodgson. (LARN, VLI.) – Near Lulworth Cove. Ref. cited Lloyds List; No. 4602, 01/10/1811.
From Reynolds’s Newspaper. Sunday October 21 1883 Page 3 THE ABANDONMENT OF THE SCHOONER ÆOLUS The court of inquiry held into the circumstances attending the abandonment of the schooner Æolus, of Padstow, was concluded on Monday at Plymouth. The vessel left London on Sept. 17 for Tralee, and on the 24th, when off Portland, met … Read Article