Deeper Dorset

MOTH

Ketch – Studland Bay. Note: Cargo COAL. LARN, VLI. Try BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1881-1884 Table III p126(568).

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).

MORNING STAR

Ketch – Cargo COPPER (Ore). Broad Bench, Kimmeridge Ledge. LARN, VLI. Ref. cited Lloyds List: No. 4081: 29/08/1800.

MONTANES

Spanish Steamer [6 to 12M] – Captain M. Zarragoza. General Cargo. (LARN) (Detail and photograph in Dive Dorset: 212 p154) – 50 34.56N; 02 03.35W. (Photograph and detail in LePard pages 42 & 43) Heading for Portland stuck St Alban’s Head. Silver & Manganese Ores? Crew saved and taken to Swanage. Weymouth Library Photograph L.910.4 … Read Article

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

MINX

Steam Powered Coal Barge – Drifted on to rocks and broke up on rocks at Osmington Mills. (LePard: p24) NIL.

MERCURE

Large Sailing Vessel – (LARN) – Portland Beach. Note: Very similar to LA MERCURIA ? This reference comes from Lloyds List. Both refer to similar cargos items e.g. lemons, almonds and raisons. Useful names mentioned in this report are; Wine casks with Faylett & Co. & Louis Borgasse. ‘Havre’ & ‘Ninnick’ carved on a piece … Read Article

MERCHANT ROYAL

Bell recovered with the previous name GOODWOOD – British Cargo Ship [53M] – Detail in Dive Dorset: 115 p97: GPS; 50 20.05N; 02 29.68W – (Also LARN) Involved in a collision with WILLIAM B TRAVIS. Well salvaged the cargo was mainly steel. 11 miles SSW of Portland Bill. (Also Clarke: & Divers Guide Weymouth & … Read Article

MARY & ELIZABETH

Captain Camplin. Cargo, Sailcloth. Church Cliffs, Lyme Regis. 1824 Gale Dor. Mag: 1975, No. 49 p24 & Dor. Mag: 1976, 50 p18.

MARY

Schooner – Captain Gilbert. Cargo CEMENT (Bagged). (LARN, VLI.) – 12 miles WNW of Portland Bill. Check Ref. Southern Times: 12/11/1921.