QUAIL III
Armed Trawler – (LARN) – Lost Portland Bill following a collision. Check also SRN: Vol. 2 p290; Lloyd’s Register: 1915-16 No. 6(Q) & ADM.APV. 1919.
Time Period: 20th Century
PREVEZA
DCC: 22/01/1920; Greek Steamer on the Chesil Beach – During Thursday night’s fog the Greek Steamer, the PREVEZA, 3,100 gross, bound from Nazarre to Rotterdam, went ashore on the beach in Chesil Cove. Tugs immediately went to her assistance, the sea being moderate, but up to Friday morning they had not succeeded in getting … Read Article
PREMIER
A Weymouth Passenger ship owned by Cousins which collided with HMS RAINBOW. Damage was slight, no passengers hurt. See excellent pictures and detail in LePard: pages 14 & 15.
PITCHIPOY
Pleasure Yacht found on the seabed. – [46M] (LARN, VLI.) – 5.2 miles ESE of Portland Bill. Ref. MOD(N) Hyd. Wk. No. 013402924.
PHOENIX
Ketch – Captain Mitchell. Cargo CEMENT (Bagged). (LARN) – Driven ashore near the wreck of the SCANDANAVIA. See also Southern Times: 24/02/1923.
PERGO
Sailing Motor Vessel – Collided with M V ZANZIBAR. Bell recovered around turn of the century, laying upright in fifty eight metres and reasonably intact with damage along the Portside from collision.
PEREGRINE
Poor navigation led her to rocks at Portland Bill. Was re-floated. (LePard: pages 80 & 81). NIL.
PECA NOVA
Dumb Barge – (Details in LARN) Story involves the Paddle Steamer BOURNEMOUTH. Sank off Portland Bill. Weymouth Library Photograph L387.5 B1.1. The Peca (Paca?) Nova – Ex ‘Brodick Castle’ – 1910 After the loss of the paddle steamer BOURNEMOUTH, her owners completed the season by chartering the PRINCESS HELENA and then the paddle steamer BRODICK … Read Article
PATROCLUS
Detail and pictures in LePard: pages 98 & 99. NIL. See Times DCC: 19/09/1907; Steamer ashore near Portland Bill. On Friday morning in an extraordinarily dense fog the large 5,000 ton steamer PATROCLUS of the Ocean Steamship Company, Liverpool (Messrs A Holt & Sons) struck an the Sharpots (Sharp Pits), half a mile north of … Read Article
PATRICIA II
Steam Yacht – [24M] (LARN, VLI.) – 17 miles SW Portland Bill.