Cargo COAL. Torpedoed by German Submarine U-37. Captain Jonathon Macinnes. 7 crew lost. The wreck has been identified by the maker’s plate but as yet no bell has been found. The boarding crew from U Boat 37 possibly removed it, they often took the bell to prove the kill and used bombs rather than … Read Article
Steamer [11M] – (Excellent detail & photograph in Dive Dorset: 131 p106 to p107: GPS; 50 34.70N; 02 26.50W) (More detail in LARN, 1939). “HIMALAYA built 1855 by Mare & Co. (Blackwall) for P & O Company to carry 400 passengers. 372ft. 2in. overall 3,438 tons gross (largest merchant ship of the day). Plates … Read Article
Built as an Armed Trawler [43M] – (LARN) – Hit mine and sank 14 miles W of Portland Bill. Clarke: GPS; 50 29.43N; 02 54.61W). SRN: Vol. 2, p167. & British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW2, p8.
‘HAM WRECK’ – Steam Vessel [3M] – (Dive Dorset: 122 p102), (Divers Guide; Weymouth & Portland Ed 5 p16-17 No. 10) GPS; 50 34.68N; 02 27.52W. NIL.
Hartlepool, a 5,500 ton Merchant Steamship [12M] – (Dive Dorset: 136 p109: GPS: 50 36.49N, 02 25.47W) – Victim of a daring torpedo attack from a German E-Boat. There is a second area of wreckage at 50 36.43N; 02 25.85W. The wreckage on both sites is very scattered due to dispersal by explosives. (Also LARN) … Read Article
Whaler Minesweeper [58M] – (Clarke: GPS; 50 24.11N; 03 01.19W) Sunk by German E-boats. NIL.
Warship which foundered following an explosion of ammunition. Poole Harbour. LARN, VLI. Check Ref. British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW2.
Steamship, Admiralty Collier [46M] – (Comprehensive detail in Dive Dorset: 113 p97: GPS: 50 25.43N; 02 29.95W) – Bombed by German Aircraft, 13.5 miles SE of Portland Bill. Cargo COAL. Had picked up survivors from S.S. ROSTEN sunk the same day. Refs. LCWLR: WW2, p488-9 & British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW2, p64. E-Boat Raid
HMS FOYLEBANK. Anti Aircraft Ship – (Excellent detail in Trim: 1940) Also LARN. The wreck was cut in two, one half towed away for breaking in March 1949 and the second was raised and broken up in 1952. See Jack Foreman Mantle VC, Wikipedia. This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Marie … Read Article
Steamship [40M] (Clarke: GPS; 50 29.30N; 01 47.10W) Torpedoed by German Submarine and was one of the last vessels sunk off the Dorset coast in WW2 – 14 miles from Poole Harbour. Ref. LCWLR: WW2, p791.& Lloyd’s Register: 1940-1 No. 74168(E)