Italian Steamship [37M] – Cargo COAL. (LARN) Torpedoed and sunk by German Submarine UB-40. 11 miles SE by S Anvil Point. (Clarke: GPS; 50 26.41N; 01 48.10W). LARN; Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p36 & Lloyd’s Register: 1918-19 (G)
Captain E. R. Pape. General Cargo: Cargo CEMENT & Cloth. Armed Steamship typical of many WWI ships off the Dorset and Devon coast [17M] – (Clarke: GPS; 50 33.289N; 03 26.393W) – Hit Mine laid by German Submarine UC-17. With 59 passengers and crew aboard. They were rescued by Teignmouth lifeboat, a tug and a … Read Article
Norwegian Steamship [35M] – Captain O. Lehman. (Dive Dorset: 107 – 50 32 02N; 02 33.06W) Brought by Mr E. Nicklin. (Also LARN). Clarke: gives the position as 50 31.81N; 02 333.44W – Sunk (Torpedoed) by German Submarine UB-17. LCWLR: WW1, p214; Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p83; Lloyds Confidential List of … Read Article
Steamship [60M] – Captain Ditmarsen. Cargo COAL. (LARN) & (Clarke: GPS; 50 13.602N; 02 27.64W) Torpedoed and sunk 12 miles SSW of Anvil Point by German Submarine UB-54. Refs. Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p83; LCWLR: WW1, p166 & Lloyd’s Register: 1915-16 No. 686(F). Bell recovered from the wreck Wheel boss from … Read Article
Schooner – Captain Sydney Bate. (Details LARN) – Scuttled using charges by a German Submarine, 15 miles SSW Portland. Cargo METALS (Ferrous). Survivors saved by sailing vessel IOANNA, and landed at Plymouth. Same submarine was reported to have sunk a sailing barge called IRO, where not reported. Refs. PRO: Kew Adm. 137/2960; LCWLR: WW1, p50 … Read Article
HMS FORMIDABLE. Battleship [60M] – (Excellent detail in Clarke: GPS; 50 13.12N; 02 03.59W.) Considerable detail in DCC. Torpedoed by German Submarine and sunk off Devon but survivors remembered mainly in Lyme Regis. See also Lyme Regis Philpott Museum. Refs. LARN South Devon 1915; Dictionary of Disaster at Sea: 1990 Ed.p248-9; Devon Shipwrecks: 1974 p90 … Read Article
Steamship [40M] Captain L. Hutchinson. Cargo STEEL & Oats. (Clarke: GPS: 50 26.40N; 01 48.15W) Torpedoed by German Submarine U-26 – Anvil Point. (Good detail in LARN) Refs. LCWLR: WW1, p157; British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW1, p59; British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats: WW1 p235; Lloyd’s Register: 1918-19 No. 373(F) & PRO: Kew Adm. … Read Article
Steamship [60M] – Captain J. Lundgren. (Clarke: 50 13.28N, 02 12.16W) & (LARN) – Torpedoed by German Submarine, UB-26, 40 miles off Portland. Cargo COAL (& Coke). Identified by bell. Refs. Lloyd’s Register: 1910-1 No. 245(F); Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p82 & LCWLR: WW1, p71.
British Steamship [35M] – (Detail in Dive Dorset: 158, p118 & Clarke: GPS; 50 28.37N; 02 20.87W). (LARN) – Torpedoed and sank by German Submarine UB-104, 4.5 miles SE Portland Bill. Refs. British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats: WW1, p32; LCWLR: WW1, p234 & British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW1, p97.
Schooner – Captain Hamblin. Cargo STONE, 155 tons. (LARN) – Scuttled by German Submarine, 24 miles SSW Portland. The survivors were picked up by Russian S.S. TAMMERFORD and brought into Weymouth Roads. PRO: Kew Adm. 137/2960. Lloyd’s Confidential War Loss Record: (LCWLR) WW1, p51.