Vessel Type: Cargo

L R

French Schooner, “Captain Paris driven on shore on Portland Beach with the loss of one boy, cargo was saved.” Morning Post September 28, 1820, Issue 15455.

LOUIS ET EUGENIE

French Brig of Nantes – Cargo, Wheat. (LARN) – 200 yards W of Bridport Harbour. Two crew were drowned. Farr: p28. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1865-9.

LORD DUFFUS

Schooner of Inverness bound from St Domingo for London – Captain A. Z. Speight. Cargo, Mahogany. (LARN & Farr: p45.) Note: The bodies of the six crew were placed in coffins and laid side by side in a small hut, previously used as Lloyd’s Signal Station. – Shag Cliff, Portland. Other refs. BOT: Wk. Rtn. … Read Article

LORD ALCESTAR

Sailing Barge/Ketch (London) – Captain W. King. Cargo Clay. LARN – Poole Breakwater. Note: Poole Lifeboat HARMER saved the crew of four. Farr: List p133.

LIVONIA

Ketch – Cargo STONE – Lyme Regis. LARN, VLI. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1910 Appx. C Table 3 p114.

LITTLE MYSTERY

LITTLE MYSTERY Schooner – Captain J. H. Greet. Cargo COAL. (Good detail in LARN) ” Carrying 168 tons of cargo was stopped by an unidentified German Submarine at 7 a.m., when the enemy vessel went alongside and her Commander fired several shots at the crew with his pistol, wounding one man in the arm. The crew … Read Article

LINDERHURST

Galliot – Captain Cursten drowned, crew saved and probably the cargo. (LARN) – Portland Beach. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 1518: 21/11/1783.

LIBERTY

Portsmouth Schooner – (LARN) – Cargo GRANITE. Seen by the Coastguard, attempts were made in a force 10 gale, to rescue the crew. However, the vessel keeled over and all were lost. Broad Bench, W side of Kimmeridge Bay. BOT: USC 1868; The Telegram: 01/10/1868 & Farr: p83. This tragedy led to the RNLI to … Read Article

LESRIX

Motor vessel – Captain George Semison. Cargo COAL – Off Portland Bill. LARN ” The 63 year old master of this vessel was a survivor of 300 wartime convoys through the channel, known as ‘Bomb Alley’. During 250 of these his ship had been under attack, or fired at by German coastal guns or E-Boats. … Read Article

LES CINQ SOEURS

From Odessa for Falmouth, only two crew saved, five lost. French Brig – Cargo Rye. (LARN, VLI.). Chesil Beach. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1859 Table 19 p24.