Deeper Dorset

REGGESTROOM

Dutch Steamship [53M] – (LARN) – Sunk be German E-Boat (2nd Flotilla?) Lyme Bay. (Clarke: p90: GPS; 50 21.56N; 02 57.56W) E-Boat Raid. Refs. LCWLR: WW2, p488 & Lloyd’s Register: 1940-1 No. 82087(R).

HMS RECOIL. German Trawler [48 to 52M] – (Dive Dorset: 54 p55, GPS – 50 26.37N; 02 44.02 (11)W) This ship was requisitioned for Naval service by the British. Hit mine and sank 12 miles WSW of Portland Bill. SRN: Vol. 2 p217. British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW2, p7. [Ex – Blackenburg. Built as … Read Article

PRINSES JULIANA

Dutch Motor Vessel – Captain J. Bloom. Used in Operation ‘Dynamo’, the Dunkirk evacuation fleet. Hit mine in the Swash Channel. The wreck was cleared in 1947 along with ABEL TASMAN to Studland Bay and placed near the wreck of the HMS SONA. J. Bloom and one crew member were killed. LARN. Ref. LCWLR: WW2, … Read Article

POMELLA

Motor Vessel, Tanker [59M] – (LARN) – Attacked and sunk by the German E-Boat S-67 of the 2nd Flotilla while in convoy WP183, 24 miles SSW of Lyme Bay. . (Clarke: GPS 50 17.86N; 03 00.99W) E-Boat Raid. Refs. British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW2, p38; LCWLR: WW2, p488; Dor. Mag: Special Edition p29 & … Read Article

MOSFRUIT

Motor Vessel – General Cargo – (LARN) – Listed as having been sunk by the German E-Boat, 2nd Torpedo Flotilla, 24 miles SSW of Portland Bill? See Dor. Mag: Special Edition p29. E-Boat Raid. Other refs. LCWLR: WW2, p477. & Lloyd’s Register: 1938-9(M).

MOIDART

Moidart on the slipway for repair after a previous accident Armed Merchant Steamship [40M] – Captain H. Arthurson. Cargo COAL & Cargo STEEL (Bar). (Dive Dorset: 42 p50. – 50 34.02N; 02 47.22W) & (Clarke: 50 34.03N; 02 47.29W) (Considerable detail also in LARN) – Sunk (Torpedoed) by German Submarine UC-77, 7 miles SE of … Read Article

MODAVIA

Motor Vessel – (Clarke: GPS; 50 24.41N; 03 01.91W) Sunk by German E-Boats. NIL.

MINERVE

Free French Submarine (P-26) – Dive Dorset: 121 p100 – 50 31.10N; 02 27.58W. Weymouth Library L910.4.M1. W side Portland Bill, 0.5 miles N. Ed C has the ‘V’ from this submarine recovered by Brian Dove in the late sixties. Additional photographs in LePard: pages 92 & 93). Portland Museum No. 19. The MINERVE was … Read Article

MEKNES

French liner MEKNES moving wounded troops [60M] – (Clarke: GPS: 50 11.40N: 02 13.80W) & (Detail in LARN) Sunk by German E-Boats. Off Portland Bill. See also Weymouth Library L940.53159.HO.1. & Dictionary of Disaster at Sea: Vol. 2, p464. A quick look at the “eu wreck register” describes the wreck as follows: “The wreck is … Read Article

MANOR

HMS Manor was part of Convoy WP 183 which suffered-particularly heavily. The E boats of the 2nd Flotilla struck first. even boats, S 48, S 50, S 63, S 67, S 70, S 104 and s109 (ed by Lieut-Commander Feldt) shattered the small convoy. At 0120 the Commodore’s ship Kongshaug was torpedoed forward of … Read Article