HMS HOOD Battleship [15M] – (Detail and photograph in Dive Dorset: 140 p111) & (Divers Guide; Weymouth & Portland Ed 5 p17 No. 2) – 50 34.10N; 02 25.22W. (Detail in LARN). Excellent display at Weymouth Museum. (More detail, particularly on Diver Robert J. Symonds and photographs in LePard: pages 48 & 49). Portland Museum … Read Article
Armed Steamship – (LARN) Captain J. F. Anderson. Cargo, Coal. Possibly Hit mine laid by German Submarine UC-62. Passing vessel S.S. ETONIAN heard shouts in the water and sent out a distress call. A patrol vessel found the ships papers but no survivors. – 8 miles S by E of Anvil Point. Refs. LCWLR: WW1, … Read Article
Merchant Steamship [39M] – Captain A. N. Shelton. Cargo MILITARY (Stores) (950 tons), Vehicles & Fodder. Detail in Dive Dorset: 203 P151: GPS; 50 30.74N; 02 06.42W. & LARN. Torpedoed by German Submarine, UC-62 amidships. Three crew missing but the remainder picked up by by the Italian S.S. ANTONIO, transferred to Patrol Ships and landed … Read Article
Steamship – Captain J. H. F. Clement. Cargo IRON (Ore). [40] (Clarke: p50: GPS; 50 22.66N; 03 13.87W) Torpedoed by German Submarine U-40, Oberleutnant Howaldt. Seven men were picked up four hours after the sinking by the Norwegian S. S. BOB. The Captain, a passenger and 17 crew were lost. Bell recovered. Refs. LARN South … Read Article
Norwegian Steamship [43M] – Captain H. Lassen. Cargo COAL. (Dive Dorset: 59, p58- 50 29.23N; 02 42.78W) (Clarke: 50 29.38N; 02 42.76W) (LARN) – Sunk (Torpedoed) by German Submarine UB-80, 7.5 miles off Portland Bill. Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p85. Bell Recovered.
Steamship [52M] – (Detail in Dive Dorset: 41 p50 & Clarke: GPS; 50 25.72N; 02 47.38W. Scuttled by a German Submarine, 20 miles SW of Portland Bill. General Cargo, Cargo METAL (including 6 inch brass die discs). Also LARN, VLI & LCWLR: WW1, p126.
Steamship [38M] – (Clarke: GPS 50 27.133N; 03 17.407W) Torpedoed by German Submarine U-40. Two of the crew were killed. See also IREX. Refs. LARN South Devon 1917; PRO: Kew Adm. 137/2962; LCWLR: WW1 p165; Lloyd’s Register: 1915-16 No. 543(G) & Dive South Cornwall: p99.
Steamship [33M] – Captain J. Sapp. Cargo COAL. (Detail in LARN) – Sunk (Torpedoed) by German Submarine UB-104, off Abbotsbury, 15 miles S of Portland Bill. Clarke: GPS: 50 35.86N; 02 53.06W) Dictionary of Disaster at Sea: Vol. 1 p271; LCWLR: British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats: WW1, p22; Burnet: p62 & Lloyd’s Register: 1918-9 … Read Article
Norwegian Steamship [32M] – Captain T. L. Storaas. Cargo COAL. (Clarke: GPS; 50 30.10N; 03 15.29W) Torpedoed and sunk by German Submarine UB-40, Oberleutnant Howaldt. Captain and donkeyman drowned but 14 were saved and landed at Brixham. Refs. Lloyd’s Register: 1915-16 No. 166(G); British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats: WW1, p237; British Vessels Lost at … Read Article
Norwegian Steamship – Captain Z. Svenson. [55] Clarke: p46: GPS; 50 16.58N; 03 28.44W) Torpedoed by German Submarine. Torpedoed and sunk by German Submarine UC-65. Refs. LARN South Devon 1917; Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p84; Lloyd’s Register: 1915-16 No. 59(G)(sepp) & LCWLR: WW1, p166.