built by Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport News in 1913 and owned at the time of her loss by The Texas Company, New York, was an American tanker of 5225 tons. On March 18th, 1917, Illinois, on a voyage from London to Port Arthur in ballast, was scuttled by the German submarine UC-21 … 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
London Steamship [7M] – Captain J. J. Huntley. Cargo Iron Ore (Spanish) for Newcastle. Farr: p87 & LARN – (A little detail in Dive Dorset: 204 p152: GPS; 50 35.30N; 02 06.10W.) Driven ashore at Freshwater. Ref. Lloyd’s Register: 1896-7 No. 417(H)
Steamship – Captain T. Austin. Cargo IRON (Ore). (LARN) – 30 miles off Portland Bill. Southern Times: 31/07/1880 p5; ‘Sank following a collision with the London registered steamship TERLINGS. The vessel sank within minutes her bow having been stove in.’ Ref. Lloyd’s Register: 1878-9 No. 18(H)(Supp).
Christchurch Head. LARN, VLI. – Captain Hanna. Cargo STONE. Victim of the 1824 Gale. Ref. Dor. Mag: No. 50 1976, p18.
Sailing Vessel – Cargo COAL. Captain Gray. (LARN, VLI.) – Weymouth. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 4030: 11/03/1800.
‘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.
Second sinking. This time she was rammed by HMS PC74. Raised again by George Louis Basso. Series of pictures in LePard: pages 64 & 65. NIL.
This ship was reported to have sunk on three occasions. She was hit by cargo ship NYMPHAEA. (Sea LePard: pages 62 & 63) She was salvaged and continued as a coal hulk for nearly thirty years.
Merchant Steamship [39M] – Captain A. N. Shelton. Cargo MILITARY (Stores) (950 tons), Vehicles & Fodder. Detail in Dive Dorset: 203 P151: GPS; 50 30.74N; 02 06.42W. & LARN. Torpedoed by German Submarine, UC-62 amidships. Three crew missing but the remainder picked up by by the Italian S.S. ANTONIO, transferred to Patrol Ships and landed … Read Article