Two masted sailing barge. Swept onto the Portland Harbour Breakwater. Re-floated. (LePard: pages 58 & 59, notes that Captain Howard of the CROWN OF DENMARK was one of the witnesses to the sinking of the M2) NIL. See Times Times: Wednesday, January 14, 1931, Issue 45720 – Crown of Denmark – Portland, Dorset, Jan. 13 … Read Article
Sonar image of the Cragside in Portland harbour TWO WRECKS AT PORTLAND. Two vessels anchored in Portland Roads – the ketch Phoenix, bound from Medina to Penzance with cement, and the steamer Cragside, owned by Messrs. and Co., coal exporters, Swansea – broke from their moorings during a gale on Thursday night and drifted on … Read Article
Got stuck on the Shamble Bank, towed into Weymouth Bay. (LePard: p70 & 71). NIL.
The Countess of Erne – Portland Harbour COLIN FOX “My diving career began in the relative calm of Portland Harbour where we were to dive on the wreck of an old coal hulk, known to all as the HIMALAYA, an ex-troopship in use during the Crimean War and sunk during a bombing raid in the … Read Article
Motorised Yacht – Poole Harbour LARN, VLI. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1909 Appx C Table 1 p134.
Schooner – Chesil Beach. LARN, VLI. Check the Southern Times: 14/03/1914.
Bridgewater ketch – Cargo, Wheat. LARN & Ref. Farr: p121-122. Under tow the line parted and was blown ashore. Poole Lifeboat CITY MASONIC CLUB tried salvage with pumps for 5 hours but failed. Her crew of four and the pilot were rescued. – Studland Bay.
Russian cargo ship bound for Odessa, ran aground East of St Alban’s Head. See LePard: pages 40 & 41. NIL. CERERA Times: Tuesday, April 16, 1907, Issue 38308 – Russian steamship Cerera, Riga for Odessa, has gone ashore one mile east of St Alban’s Head. Tug Queen, and Monarch steamship in attendance. 11ft of water … Read Article
Times: Thursday, December 12, 1912, Issue 40080 – “A steamer disappeared after a collision with the battleship Centurion off Portland Bill. A port bow light found on the Centurion is marked ‘J. H. Peters and Bey, Hamburg 1668’. An official inquiry will be held in due course.”
Coaster [37M] Off Anvil Point. (Clarke: GPS; 50 34.83N; 01 56.10W) Cargo COAL. Crew drowned. The bell with the old name was recovered. Dictionary of Disaster at Sea: p132. & Lloyd’s Casualty Returns: 1926 No.6872(N).