Deeper Dorset

DOVE

French Sailing Vessel – (LARN) – Lulworth Cove. Cargo Wine. Ref. Dor. Mag: No. 48.

Schooner – Cargo COAL. (LARN) Ran too close inshore and struck near the HARDY, got off and drifted off to where the TYNE lay 1857 and finally broke up on the 17th. Nothing was saved. Ed. Can find no references to the TYNE. This source is unknown, more research needed. No ref. in LARN?

DOROTHEA

Sailing Vessel – Captain Blochan. Cargo, Salt. (LARN, VLI.) – Portland Roads. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 2515: 19/02/1760.

DILIGENCE of Portsmouth

DILIGENCE of Portsmouth [15/11/1842] – Times Also the Morning Post November 16, 1842, Issue 22411 “About 2 o’clock on Thursday morning, the smack Diligence, of Portsmouth, of 30 tons burthen, bound to Southampton from Guernsey, laden with potatoes, cames on shore on Chisel Beach near Portland, in a squall of wind from the S.S.W. It … Read Article

DEVERON

Schooner – Captain F. Couch. Cargo China Clay. (LARN) – Sank in Portland Roads after collision with HMS CONFLICT. (LePard: pages 60 & 61). The schooner was eventually raised. The officer on watch on HMS CONFLICT was severely reprimanded. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1905 Appx C Table 1 p145. Derby Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 20 … Read Article

DAPHNE

Steamship – Captain A. Nilsen. Cargo COAL. (LARN) – Torpedoed by German Submarine UB-16 off Portland. Ref. LCWLR: WW1 p71 & Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p79

DAPHNE

Schooner – Cargo COAL. Captain Salisbury. Lyme Regis harbour, 100yds E North Wall. Loss on vessel £450, Loss on cargo £30. Refs, Lloyds List: 29/11/1852 & Adm. Wk. Rtn. 1852.

DAGMAR

S.S. DAGMAR REPORT OF AN INTERVIEW WITH THE CHIEF OFFICER MR. WINSLOW We were bound from Dartmouth to Poole with a cargo of 1,115 tons 0f coal. We were armed with 3 Lewis guns, 2 Hotchkiss 2 P.A.C rockets and a kite. The confidential books went down with the ship. The number of crew, including … Read Article

CROWN OF DENMARK

Two masted sailing barge. Swept onto the Portland Harbour Breakwater. Re-floated. (LePard: pages 58 & 59, notes that Captain Howard of the CROWN OF DENMARK was one of the witnesses to the sinking of the M2) NIL. See Times Times: Wednesday, January 14, 1931, Issue 45720 – Crown of Denmark – Portland, Dorset, Jan. 13 … Read Article

CRAGSIDE

Sonar image of the Cragside in Portland harbour TWO WRECKS AT PORTLAND. Two vessels anchored in Portland Roads – the ketch Phoenix, bound from Medina to Penzance with cement, and the steamer Cragside, owned by Messrs. and Co., coal exporters, Swansea – broke from their moorings during a gale on Thursday night and drifted on … Read Article