Vessel Type: Cargo

FENNA

Schooner – Captain J. H. Mulder. Cargo GLASS & Cargo IRON ? (LARN) – Portland. Ref. BOT: Wk Rtn 1881 Appx. Pts. I-IV p92(362).

FAIRLINA

Times: Wednesday, April 18, 1866, Issue 25475 –Brig, Fairlina, laden with iron, salvaged and brought into Weymouth. Ship Incident.

EXCEL of Weymouth

Times: January 28, 1858, Issue 22902 – The Excel of Weymouth, laden with Portland Stone, was wrecked approaching Calais, France. Four crew members were drowned. Ship Incident of a Local Vessel. ‘An Eye Witness’: “Sir, I have seen the account of this shipwreck in your journal of the 25th instant, but as it is in … Read Article

EXHIBITION

Smack – Captain Moore. Cargo, Potatoes. (LARN, VLI.) – Portland Bill. Check the ref. cited Southern Times: 08/11/1879.

EXCELSIOR

Fishing Drifter [19M]. Hengistbury Head. Note: Cargo METAL Scrap & Cargo PIPES. Wreck lies in 18 metres. Clarke: GPS; 50 40.41N; 01 44.80W. Refs. LARN & Lloyds List: 08/09/1924.

ESCAPE

DCC: 18/12/1856. “The brig ESCAPE (Thrift), of Liverpool, from Odessa to Falmouth, with wheat, for orders, having over ran her port in consequence of the thick weather and heavy gales, anchored on Tuesday morning week off Portland, making water, with six streaks “list a port”, and her pumps choked by the wheat. She was assisted … Read Article

ERMENILDA

Schooner – Captain Hamblin. Cargo STONE, 155 tons. (LARN) – Scuttled by German Submarine, 24 miles SSW Portland. The survivors were picked up by Russian S.S. TAMMERFORD and brought into Weymouth Roads. PRO: Kew Adm. 137/2960. Lloyd’s Confidential War Loss Record: (LCWLR) WW1, p51.

ENTERPRISE

Barque – Cargo, Wood. (LARN, VLI.) – Chesil Beach, opposite Fleet. Ref. Lyme Regis RNLI Station Records

ENRIQUETA

I found this wreck in 1995 and for many years we thought it was the Apache, the bell had no name on it and the only clue was the deck machinery built by Alley and Maclellan which in pre internet days led us to various books and the Apache as her deck gear was by … Read Article

EMPIRE CRUSADER

Steamship – Cargo COAL, 1,020 tons (Good detail in LARN, indicating that there are some doubts as to this identity) – 10 miles W of Anvil Point, Cargo Coal. Wreck thought to be this ship is possibly the VENEZUELA. The ship was bombed by German Aircraft 15 miles W of St Catherine’s Point where she … Read Article