Times: Tuesday, October 21, 1862, Issue 24382 – Schooner Wesleyan of Portland to London (Portland Stone) was abandoned off Beachy Head in heavy seas. Ship Incident of a Local Vessel Ditto: The Good Intent of Weymouth from Shields for Teignmouth is ashore near Aldborough. Master, mate and one man drowned. Ship Incident of a Local … Read Article
Times: Thursday, October 19, 1843, Issue 18431 – “The Good Intent of Weymouth, Cargo STONES, is ashore on Battery, Plymouth.” Ship Incident of a Local
Schooner – (LARN) – Chesil Beach, near Wyke. Seven of the twenty man crew were drowned near the Smallmouth Ferry. The manifest listed 12 butts of Sherry, 400 jars of Olives, 2000 barrels of Raisons and 240 pieces of silver & gold (pistoles and pieces of eight). When the Excise officials examined the wrecked the … Read Article
Sailing Vessel – Captain Bell, Cargo COAL. Peveril Ledge, Swanage. LARN, VLI. Ref. Dor. Mag: 1976, No. 50, p18.
Schooner – Captain C. P. Lockyer. Cargo COAL – (LARN, VLI.) – 20 miles SW Portland Bill. Refs. Lloyd’s Register: 1896-7 No. 520(G). & BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1900 Appx. C Table 1 p112.
Steamship [33M] – Captain J. Sapp. Cargo COAL. (Detail in LARN) – Sunk (Torpedoed) by German Submarine UB-104, off Abbotsbury, 15 miles S of Portland Bill. Clarke: GPS: 50 35.86N; 02 53.06W) Dictionary of Disaster at Sea: Vol. 1 p271; LCWLR: British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats: WW1, p22; Burnet: p62 & Lloyd’s Register: 1918-9 … Read Article
Brigantine – Cargo wine. Lifeboat sent out to the rescue collided with the vessel and overturned. It righted itself but one of the Coastguard officers, Mr Martin was drowned. All the crew were saved. – 3 miles E of Lyme Regis. Refs. Lloyds List: 10/01/1854 P377 & The Times Newspaper: 11/01/1854.
Italian Steamship [37M] – Cargo COAL. (LARN) Torpedoed and sunk by German Submarine UB-40. 11 miles SE by S Anvil Point. (Clarke: GPS; 50 26.41N; 01 48.10W). LARN; Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p36 & Lloyd’s Register: 1918-19 (G)
Captain E. R. Pape. General Cargo: Cargo CEMENT & Cloth. Armed Steamship typical of many WWI ships off the Dorset and Devon coast [17M] – (Clarke: GPS; 50 33.289N; 03 26.393W) – Hit Mine laid by German Submarine UC-17. With 59 passengers and crew aboard. They were rescued by Teignmouth lifeboat, a tug and a … Read Article
Steamship [60M] – Captain Ditmarsen. Cargo COAL. (LARN) & (Clarke: GPS; 50 13.602N; 02 27.64W) Torpedoed and sunk 12 miles SSW of Anvil Point by German Submarine UB-54. Refs. Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p83; LCWLR: WW1, p166 & Lloyd’s Register: 1915-16 No. 686(F). Bell recovered from the wreck Wheel boss from … Read Article