Deeper Dorset

SANDHEAP

Dumb Barge, lost by its tow tug FLYING KESTREL went aground on Milkmaid Shoal, Poole Harbour. See LARN. & (Farr: p102). The lone seaman was rescued by Coxswain Robert Brown of the Swanage lifeboat.

Southern Times: “Since March, the cargo vessel SAND DART has been wedged on the rocks off St. Alban’s Head. It was pulled off a couple of weeks ago and towed to Portland Harbour and is now tied up at the Stone Firm’s Pier. It is to be patched up sufficiently for removal to Newhaven.” See … Read Article

SAINT MICHAEL

French Ketch – Cargo, Vegetabls. (LARN) – 1 mile E Lyme Regis. Report states that the Weymouth Catholic Priest, Canon Julas Ketele acted as interpreter! Source Unknown.

HMS SAFARI

HMS SAFARI. Submarine S Class Group 3 [40M] Building No. P.211 name given in 1945. Lost St Alban’s Head while on tow to be scrapped. LARN, SRN: Vol. 1 p16, 479.

ROSE MYSTERIEUSE

French Ketch – Poole Quay. Salvaged. Ref. BOT: Wk Rtn. 1916 Pt. II(1) p52.

ROSA

Schooner – Captain T. Collins. Cargo GRANITE Chips. 7 miles E of Peveril Point, Swanage. (LARN, VLI.) Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1907 Appx. C Table 1 p109.

ROLLO

Schooner – Cargo STONE. (LARN) – Portland Breakwater. “The crew clambered over the bowsprit with their baggage to reach safety after the vessel struck the breakwater. They were taken in by the artillery men and housed in the breakwater fort. The vessel sat with her stern underwater and her bow high up on the rocks, … Read Article

ROEBUCK of Weymouth

Times: Thursday, July 20, 1911, Issue 39642 – Details of the Great Western Railway Company’s mail steamer Roebuck, while proceeding from the Channel Islands to Weymouth, stuck the Corbiere Rock. Crew and 140 passengers saved, Roebuck seriously damaged. MI. Ship Incident of a Local Vessel

RELIANCE

Ketch – Tragic tale of Francis and Alan Davison who intending to cruise the world were wrecked at Cave Hole at Portland Bill. Francis managed to climb the cliffs near the lighthouse to safety but Alan drowned. See Last Voyage, Ann Davison. Weymouth Library Photograph L910.4 RE.1-2-3. (Also LARN & Dive Dorset: p83). (LePard: pages … Read Article

REINE DES CIEUX

French Ketch from Piampol – Went to pieces 0.8 miles NW of Eype near Bridport. The Lyme Regis lifeboat THOMAS MASTERMAN HARDY went to the seen but the three crew had been saved by the Torbay lifeboat. Farr: p25-26 & LARN