Vessel Type: Cargo

FRIENDS GOODWILL

Smack – Captain C. Baker. Cargoo STONE. (LARN, VLI.) Stranded and sank near Swanage. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1890 Appx. C Table 1 p128: NLR.

FREEWILL

(LARN) – Salvage Vessel, part of the saga of the SCADANAVIA. Weymouth Library Photo L910.4.FR.2. Dor. Mag: No. 58, p24. (LePard: pages 56 & 57) Cargo METAL (Scrap).

FREDERIC

French Schooner – (LARN) Cargo STONE & Cargo CEMENT (Bagged) – Poole Harbour. VLI. Refs. BOT: Wk. Rtn. Appx. C p223(225) & NLR?

FRANCISKA

German Steam Collier [48M] – Detail in Dive Dorset: 123, p102 & Clarke: GPS; 50 28.30N; 02 27.40W – (LARN) Captain J. Haye. Cargo COAL. Vessel foundered and lost following a collision with the barque HONOR of Norway. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1889 Appx. C Table 1 p141(708). See also Fransiska Times Times: Tuesday, February … Read Article

FORESTER

Cardiff Collier [10M] – Clarke: 50 34.36N; 02 24.63W) The wreck lies parallel to the harbour wall. The ship broke free during a storm and famously drifted through the Royal Navy’s Atlantic Fleet ricocheting from one anchor chain to another before hitting the wall and turning turtle. There was a young stowaway on board who … Read Article

FOLKE

Schooner – (LARN) Captain F. Wendell. Cargo COAL (& Coke) & Cargo BRICKS. 12 miles S Shambles. BOT: 1883, Appx. Pt. I-VI, p87.

FLYING SCUD

Brigantine – Captain W. Allen. Cargo, Beans. This vessel sank after a collision with Dutch ship VOORLICHTER (LARN) – 15 miles off St Alban’s Head. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1876 Appx. Pts. I-IV p117(317).

FLYING FISH

Schooner – Captain T. Wood. (LARN) Lyme Regis. Note: Cargo LIMESTONE (Cargo STONE). Refs. Lyme Regis Register of ships 1786 – 1880 & Lloyd’s Register: 1878-9 No. 352(F).

FLORA

Brig – Captain H. Barden. Cargo COAL and Cargo IRON. (LARN) – Ringstead Bay. Refs. BOT: 1885. & Lloyd’s Register: 1883-4 No. 257(F). Times: Tuesday, December 8, 1885, Issue 31624 – “The Flora, schooner of Faversham from Hartlepool for Weymouth with coal, stranded off Osmington at 12.30am yesterday. Her crew were saved by the Coastguard. … Read Article

FLORA

Sailing Vessel – Captain Spedlington and 12 crew were drowned. (LARN) – Portland. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 2825: 03/06/1796. Times: Thursday, June 2, 1796, Issue 3601 – Weymouth, May 31: “Between 10 & 11 in the forenoon, a snow from Guernsey to Alicante, the Flora, Captain Lindell, in ballast, came ashore in West Bay, and … Read Article