Time Period: 20th Century

20th Century shipwrecks recorded by Deeper Dorset. 221 losses from this period off the Dorset coast, with dates, positions, depths and sources where known.

KAYLENA

Dismantled Yacht?- (LARN, VLI.) – 2.25 miles SSE of St Alban’s Head. Only MOD(N) Hyd. Wk. No. 013402080.

KATE

Times: Monday, December 24, 1900, Issue 36333 – “Weymouth, Dec. 23: The brig Kate, Tyne, for Weymouth with coals, ran ashore in Newton’s Cove in dense fog this morning and was towed off.” Also: Liner Westernland lying at Weymouth with broken propeller, towed to Southampton. Ship Incidents

JUDY II

Sailing Yacht – (LARN, VLI.) – 4 miles S by W Anvil Point.

JOLLY ESMOND

Went aground on Portland Bill. Managed to free herself on a rising tide (LePard: p 82). NIL.

JOANAH

Sailing Vessel – Cargo, Clove Bark – LARN, VLI. Check ref. in Dor. Mag: No. 48, 1975 p15) – Near Weymouth.

JASON

Steamship – Captain R. J. Evans. Cargo IRON (Cast Ingots). (LARN) – 150 yards from Sheep Rock, Portland. Weymouth Library Photo. L910.4JA.4. Eventually towed off the rocks. (LePard: pages 90 & 91) Times: Monday, March 20, 1911, Issue 39537 –“The steamer Jason, which went ashore on the Bill of Portland while on a voyage from … Read Article

JAMES FENNEL

Admiralty Trawler JAMES FENNEL, bound from Gibraltar for Portsmouth [18M] – (Dive Dorset: 125 p103/104 – 50 32.75N; 02 27.30W) & (Clarke: 50 32.78N; 02 27.51W) (Also good local detail in LARN) – Blacknor Point, Portland. (LePard: pages 108 & 109). Farr: p49, Weymouth Library Photograph L910.4 JA.1-8 neg. No. 24/19. Portland Museum Wreck No. … Read Article

ISBJORN

Steamship [56M] – (Clarke: GPS; 50 22.40N; 03 03.56W) Does not say how it sank. NIL.

IONIC of Portland

Times: Wednesday, February 15, 1899, Issue 35753 – Portland, Feb. 14 – Stuart, steamship from London, parted anchor last night during a heavy gale and drifted through the roads, doing considerable damage to barges Ionic, of London, Aquila, of Goole, Pioneer, of Montrose, Ethel Edith of Ipswich and steamer Hampshire; afterwards drifted on new breakwater, … Read Article

IONA

Yacht – LARN, VLI. – Swash Channel