The steamship Girnigoe (Captain Scott), bound from Cherbourg to Poole with a cargo of stone, while in mid-channel on the night of the 27th inst., was struck by a heavy sea, with the result that the cargo shifted and an inrush of water extinguished the fires. The crew put off in the lifeboat, and at … Read Article
(LARN) – Salvage Vessel, part of the saga of the SCADANAVIA. Weymouth Library Photo L910.4.FR.2. Dor. Mag: No. 58, p24. (LePard: pages 56 & 57) Cargo METAL (Scrap).
Beached temporarily in Weymouth Bay. (LePard: p25) NIL.
Type unknown – (LARN) – North Entrance of Portland Harbour. Sank after collision with S.S. ZAFIFLS (Greek). NLR: Dorset County Records Office, Register of Weymouth Shipping?
Cardiff Collier [10M] – Clarke: 50 34.36N; 02 24.63W) The wreck lies parallel to the harbour wall. The ship broke free during a storm and famously drifted through the Royal Navy’s Atlantic Fleet ricocheting from one anchor chain to another before hitting the wall and turning turtle. There was a young stowaway on board who … Read Article
HMS FISGARD II. Naval Training Ship [68M] – Dive Dorset: 116 p98 & Clarke: GPS; 50 28.23N; 02 29.44W. (Details also in LARN) 21 drowned. Originally the iron clad INVINCIBLE, then EREBUS (1904) and then FISGARD II (1906). Ref. DCC: 24/09/1914. Print – Illustrated London News Name: HMS Invincible Builder: Napier shipyards Laid down: 28 … Read Article
Yacht – Weymouth Lifeboat was launched to assist this capsized catamaran off Portland Bill; three survivors picked up by the naval helicopter. Two outer hull picked up by the HM Frigate WHITBY and the centre hull by Trinity House tender SIREN. LARN Ref. Cited Western Morning News: Date ?
Admiralty Drifter hired by the Royal Navy in 1916. Lost in a gale. Crew of seven saved by Poole Lifeboat RNLB HARMAR. More information in SRN Vol. 1 p128 & Farr: P123 & listed on 134. Other ref. in LARN; ADM.APV 1916 p16.
Dutch Coaster. [48M] Cargo China Clay. Good detail in Dive Dorset: 191 p144, & Clarke: has a small photograph: GPS; 50 22.89N; 02 13.61W – Sank following a collision with M.V. FAVORIET. (More detail in LARN) – 17 miles SE of Portland Bill. Ref. Lloyd’s Casualty Returns: 1961(b) p6. Evertsen Dived July 2009. The hull … Read Article
Fishing Ketch – Captain W. Turner. Cargo, Fish. (LARN, VLI) – Durleston Head. BOT: Wk Rtn Appx. C Table 1 p149.