Deeper Dorset

BEATRICE

Sailing Barge – Cargo, Cotton Seed Cake. Poole Harbour. LARN, VLI. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1910 Appx. C Table 1 p114.

Crew managed to jump to safety. They were ferried across the Fleet to Langton Herring Coastguard station. French Fishing Vessel – Weymouth Library Photo L910.4.BA.1. Dor. Mag: 1976 No. 49, p30. 5 Crew saved. (Also details in LARN) – Langton Coast Guard Station, Chesil Beach. (LePard: p138)

BARRYMAN

Yacht (LARN) – Kimmeridge Ledges, St Alban’s Head.

BARCAROLLE

Yacht – (LARN) – An unregistered yacht No. 3035, an Eclipse type 43, struck an unidentified object, 1 mile S by W, Anvil Point.

AUTUMN

Ketch – (LARN) – 3 miles SE of Portland Breakwater. Cargo RAILWAY COMPONENTS. Check BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1908-9, Appx. C Table 1 p98.

AUGUSTE

French Smack – Captain A. Halley. (LARN) – Sank 25 miles WSW of Portland Bill following a collision with S.S. OLAZARRI. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1901 Appx. C Table 1 p145.

ATHEN

Steamship [53M] – Captain H. Rochling. Cargo PATENT Coal Bricks showing the Phoenix or the Crown of the Cardiff Co., See example in Portland Museum – Dive Dorset: 119 p100. & Clarke: GPS; 50 20.71N; 02 27.72W. (LARN) – Sank following a collision with S. S. THOR of Glasgow. The beautiful Dolphin compass binnacle was … Read Article

ARGUENON

French Yacht on Weymouth Sands – (LePard: pages 20 & 21) NIL.

APACHE

Ships bell Recovered builders plate Here are the bits on the “APACHE” from the Newspaper Library. At the PRO at Kew there may be a little more detail on the ship itself so I will have a look when I next get there. There should also be a list of the other fourteen who didn’t … Read Article

ANTWERP CITY

Her cargo of grain shifted in heavy seas nearly causing her to capsize; photograph. (Photograph also in LePard: p73) NIL.