Schooner – Captain J. Williams. Cargo COAL. According to LARN its PALLAS in Board of Trade Records & PALACE in the DCC and Southern Times. This gale was reported as storm force 10 hurricane; a total of four sailing ships were recorded in these reports. The Coastguards recovered 13 bodies that were washed ashore. The … Read Article
Cargo/Passenger Liner bound for Natal – (Good detail in Dive Dorset: 205, p152) GPS; 50 35.23N; 02 05.61W. Captain Paynter. General Cargo. Some detail in LARN, but also check the Bournemouth Guardian & Dictionary of Disaster at Sea: Vol. 2 p537. The vessel was stranded for some time on the Kimmeridge Ledge. The 35 crew … Read Article
Times: Wednesday, June 3, 1908, Issue 38663 – Weymouth, June 2: Spanish steamer Orozco, Huelva for Gothenburg, iron ore, stranded on Chesil Beach west of Langton Herring Coastguard Station. Every prospect of the vessel floating to-night. Sea smooth. Ship Incident
French Steamship – Captain John Pierre. Cargo COAL. (LARN) Attacked and sunk. Probably off Portland? Refs. LCWLR: WW1, p190; Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p21 & Lloyd’s Register: 1917-18 No. 36(O).
A 200 Ton Norwegian Brig – Captain Abrahamson. Cargo, Deals. (LARN, VLI.) Opposite the Railway Station at Chesil Beach. All seven crew rescued. Refs. Southern Times: 17/10/1891; Lloyd’s Casualty Returns: 1891 p14(h) & Lloyd’s Register: 1888-9 No. 3670(O)
Ketch, Cargo Bridport Grit – Captain Grane. (LARN, VLI.) – Near Bridport Harbour. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1895 Appx. C Table 1 p135. & Farr: p28.
Times: Thursday, June 9, 1910, Issue 39294 – “During the fog in the Channel early this morning the German steamer Okahandja went ashore off Blacknor Fort, Portland, while bound from Cartagena to Stettin with ore. She is owned by Mr. Emil Retzlaff, and is a vessel of 3,429 tons built in 1895, and valued … Read Article
Schooner – Captain Anthony Michael. Cargo, Oats. (LARN) – Chesil Beach, Coastguard Station, Langton Herring. One crewman lost, John Fiyim. Refs. DCC: 25/01/1866 & BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1865-69 Table 21 p30.
General Cargo. Captain Clement – French Barque – (LARN) – Portland Beach. There was a Sale “French Barque on Monday 27/12/1852, consisting of one part of the vessel, on the beach at Langton Preventive Station. The other part having ended up at Osmington was sold the next day. Refs. BOT: Hr 1849-60 p115(557) & Lloyds … Read Article
Cargo COAL? Struck on the anchor of another ship and sank. (LARN) – Weymouth Harbour. Check Sh. Merc: 26/07/1802.