Deeper Dorset

SUSANNA

Captain Urick. Small amount of cargo saved. Bridport Harbour. LARN, VLI. Ref. cited Lloyds List: No. 2,720: 29/05/1795.

SUPRISE

Cutter – Captain G. Anthony. Cargo, Provisions. (LARN, VLI.) – Portland Roads. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn 1898 Appx C Table 1 p139.

Brig – Captain John Anderson. Cargo GRANITE. – Enquiry held in Sunderland noted that the vessel was un-seaworthy. Crew saved the boat was run ashore on Hook Sands, near Poole Harbour. Ref. BOT: Enquiry 1873 Pt VI Table 42 p125(361).

STRALSUND

Norwegian Sailing Vessel, General Cargo. (LARN) First service of RNLI, MARY HEAPE (Coxswain was William Strickland, Kimmeridge) – Rocket Apparatus used to throw a line. Crew of fifteen saved. Kimmeridge Ledges. Legg: p39 & Farr: p85.

START

Norwegian Steamship [40M] – Captain A. Olsen. Cargo COAL – Clarke: 50 28.28N, 01 49.59W & (LARN) – Thought to have Hit mine but may have been Torpedoed? Off St Alban’s Head. Refs. cited Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p101; Lloyd’s Register: 1917-18 No. 1832(S) & Divers Guide; Weymouth & Portland: Ed … Read Article

STAR OF PEACE

Ketch – Captain A. Grenfell. Cargo, Oil Cake. (LARN, VLI.) – Portland Bill. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1902 Appx. C Table 1 p135.

STANDARD

3 masted schooner – Captain G. Ramussen. Cargo China Clay (347 tons). (LARN) – Sunk by German Submarine (method not recorded), 13 miles S Portland Bill. Ref. given LCWLR: WW1, p86 & Lloyd’s Register: 1915-16 No. 499(S).

ST PETER

Sailing Vessel – (LARN) Captain Wilson. Cargo STONE (unspecified). Quote “on Friday last was drove on shore near Weymouth, loaded with Stone for London, there were two Men and two Boys on Board, all of whom perished with the Cold” Stone Wreck @ Pier? Reference given Lloyds List: No. 3,335: 05/01/1768.

ST DEVERNICK of Guernsey

Times: Saturday, August 27, 1881, Issue 30284 – “The St. Devernick of Guernsey, laden with coal for the Government is reported by telegraph from Portland to have struck in rounding the Breakwater on Thursday night, and was compelled to take assistance of a tug to keep her afloat.” Ship Incident

SPIRAL

Steam Collier – Cargo COAL. (LARN) Excellent detail in Dive Dorset: 182 p141 – 50 25.00N; 02 19.00W. The SPIRAL was scuttled by a boarding party from German Submarine UB-18. Refs. LCWLR WW1, p51; British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats: WW1, p40 & British Vessels Lost at Sea:WW1 p21.