The Cobb, Lyme Regis. Lyme Coal Boat Disaster. Ref. DCC: 10/01/1867. Times Listed as SPEC [10/2/1867] Times: Thursday, January 10, 1867, Issue 25704 – Letter to the Editor: Report on the Extreme Gales at Lyme Regis. The Spec, The Ann and Emily, The Panda and The Vulcan were driven from the Cobb and wrecked on … Read Article
Times: Tuesday, July 17, 1877, Issue 28996 – St. Nazaire, July 16, The Souvenir of Weymouth from Santander for Falmouth with wheat has been abandoned off Ushant. Crew landed here. Ship Incident of a Local Vessel.
Brig – Captain Aulie. Cargo, Softwood. (LARN) – Studland Bay, Poole. Refs. Lloyd’s Casualty Returns: 1891(H) p14 & Lloyd’s Register: 1888-9 No. 1346(S)
Schooner of Exeter – Cargo COAL Two Coastguards and four crew were rewarded for this schooner which capsized and sunk a mile off Peveril Ledge. Captain, six men and a boy aboard. (LARN & Farr: p89) She had been a new vessel the previous Christmas, and there was a large loss of life for such … Read Article
Sailing Ship [60M] – Captain Shapland. General Cargo & Cargo China Clay. (Clarke: GPS 50 12.44N; 02 56.66W) & (LARN) – Sank 26 miles off Portland Bill following a collision with HMS LANDRAIL which sank itself in 10/4/1906. Refs. Lloyds Casualty Returns: 1896 p9(d) & Lloyd’s Register: 1896-7 No. 762(S) Recently recovered the Siren’s large … Read Article
Large Sailing Ship – Captain R. Nicholson. General Cargo. 15 miles S by W Anvil Point, Swanage. LARN sank following a collision with the CITY OF LUCKNOW of Glasgow. Refs. BOT: Wk Rtn. 1884 Appx Pt. I-VI p132 & Lloyd’s Register: 1883-4 No. 639(S) lives were lost. The ships in collision were the Simla … Read Article
Spanish Freighter Captain F. Tommerek. General Cargo. Identity confirmed by bell. [44M] – (Clarke: 50 24.32N; 03 22.93W) Torpedoed and sunk by German Submarine UB-80, Kapitanleutnant Biebeg. Refs. LARN South Devon 1918; MoD(N) Hyd. Wk. No. 013302978; Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p99; LCWLR: WW1, p213 & Dive South Cornwall: p72-3.
Steamship – Captain J. Campbell. Cargo, Oil Gas. (Detail in LARN) – This wreck was salvaged for scrap by Turners of Weymouth. Within three months there were to be four wrecks in the area. GRAGSIDE, PHOENIX & FREEWILL. Also LePard pages 56 & 57. Southern Times: 23/12/1922. Weymouth Library Photograph L910.4.FR2, Neg. No. 72/8A. See … Read Article
Steamship [52M] (See Clarke: Wreck of the FLUENT.) GPS; 50 21.86N; 02 03.06W. Cargo RAILWAY Rolling stock and Cargo PATENT FUEL. Sank after collision with Norwegian barque NOR?. Ten passengers and crew were drowned. There is confusion here check information. NIL. 2537 tons British Steamship Cargo COAL (& Coke). This is referred to as the … Read Article
Schooner – DCC: 16/08/1885 – Cargo COAL. Captain T. Stuart (LARN) & (Farr: p42) The whole crew were saved by the Rocket Apparatus. – Chesil Cove See also Times DCC:16/08/1885 (Transcription by K. V. Saunders). “The SAPPHIRE schooner, of Newcastle, Captain Stewart, was wrecked on Wednesday afternoon in Chesil Cove. She left Newcastle on the … Read Article