Schooner – (LARN) – Chesil Beach with all six crew drowned. Note: Cargo SLATE (Roofing). Five bodies were recovered from the Portland Beach. Refs. DCC: 29/10/1835; Dorset Records Office: John Thomas Elliott’s Diary & Dor. Mag: No. 58, p24.
Times: Tuesday, November 5, 1869, Issue 26590 – Margaret of Weymouth, lost near the Black Tail Buoy Sheerness carrying Portland Stone? Ship Incident of a Local Vessel Times: Tuesday, November 9, 1869, Issue 26596 – Sheerness, Nov 5, The Margaret of Weymouth from Portland for London put into Dover on the 28th October making water … Read Article
Times: Wednesday, November 2, 1887, Issue 32219 – Extreme Gale: “A large steamer, name unknown, has gone ashore off St Alban’s Head. The brigantine Maren, from Mexico for Hamburg, with logwood, went ashore in Weymouth Bay yesterday morning, and her crew landed in the afternoon in the lifeboat. The Italian brig Vincinzine has arrived in … Read Article
Times: Tuesday, December 4, 1883, Issue 30994 – “The Malaga, steamer, has towed the John Givan, brigantine, of Belfast, derelict, which had been in collision with some unknown vessel. She appears to be full of water; cargo supposed deals and boards.” Ship Incident
Panamanian Motor Vessel [45M] Cargo, Fertiliser. (LARN) Sank about 25 miles off Berry Head Lyme Bay. All the crew were saved by the Torbay lifeboat. (Clarke: GPS; 50 20.20N; 02 57.56W) Ref. Lloyds List: No. 52170:10/09/1982 & L Spurling Database (Lloyd’s Register:)?
Steamship – Captain R. Beckett. Cargo COAL. (LARN) – Sank following a collision with the American vessel HENRY VILLARD, 28 miles W of Portland Bill. Refs. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1884. Appx. C Table 1 p139 & Lloyd’s Register: 1883-4 No. 67(M).
Large three Masted Schooner MADELAINE TRISTAN – Captain Vallon. Cargo, Grain. Detail in Portland Museum & Weymouth Library L910.4.MA1-MA22. Also Photo L942.33.BU3. Chesil Cove. (Some detail in LARN, 1930) Rocket Apparatus. Good local story. Excellent pictures also in LePard: pages 116, 117, 118 & 119. Other refs. Burnett: p57; Southern Times: 12/09/1931. Portland Museum No. … Read Article
Sailing Vessel – Captain H. Caswell. Cargo, Provisions. (LARN, VLI.) – Castletown Beach, Portland. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1897 Appx. C Table 1 p136.
Times: Saturday, March 7, 1885, Issue 31388 – “Lloyd’s Agent at Portland telegraphs that the Lynn? ketch of Falmouth, from Weymouth for Helford River with stone (Portland Stone)? drove foul of the pilot cutter No. 7 at 4 o’clock yesterday morning, holes herself, and commenced filling, was compelled to slip chains and run ashore. The … Read Article
Schooner [52M] – Captain J. F. Drouyn. Foundered. (LARN, VLI) – 14 miles WSW Portland Bill. Cargo METAL (Mixed). (Clarke: GPS: 50 25.93N; 02 48.67W) Dundee Evening Telegraph – Friday 31 July 1914