Armed British Steamship – Captain Weatherall. [57M] – (Dive Dorset: 65 p61: GPS; 50 23.22N; 02 40.06W.) Torpedoed and sunk by German Submarine U-84, 10 miles SW Portland Bill. Cargo PATENT FUEL (Coal Blocks), 3500 tons. (Clarke: 50 18.30N, 02 44.42W) Refs. British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats in WW1, p117; LCWLR: WW1, p94; British … Read Article
Schooner – Cargo STONE. (LARN) – Portland Breakwater. “The crew clambered over the bowsprit with their baggage to reach safety after the vessel struck the breakwater. They were taken in by the artillery men and housed in the breakwater fort. The vessel sat with her stern underwater and her bow high up on the rocks, … Read Article
Times: Wednesday, November 15, 1876 Issue 28787 – “Weymouth, Nov. 14 – The Roberto of Halifax from Wilmington for Hull, with resin and turpentine went ashore outside Portland Breakwater was towed off by a tug into Portland Roads stipped? from three anchors had rudder unshipped and bottom badly damaged.” Ship Incident
Ketch – Cargo GRANITE (Cut Blocks) – (LARN, VLI.) – Portland Race. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1866 Table 21 p32(410).
Sailing Vessel – Captain Glover. Cargo Fish & Train Oil? All the crew except one saved – (LARN) Studland Bay, Poole. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 947: 18/12/1744.
Loaded with a cargo of logwood the vessel was wrecked in Chesil Cove. (LePard: p31 VLI) NIL.
Norwegian Barque – Captain A. Jorgensen. Cargo, Hardwood. (LARN) – Broke up on Tar Rocks, Chesil Cove. See also S. S. EDISON. Refs. Lloyd’s Casualty Returns: 1894 p11(d); BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1894 Appx. C Table 1 p151 & Lloyd’s Register: 1891-2 No. 78(R)
RAILWAY LINE WRECK – Possibly a Barge – (Dive Dorset: 195 p147: GPS; 50 34.52N; 02 11.45W. 9 miles from Weymouth. Cargo RAILWAY (Lines)? NIL.
Brig – Cargo STONE. Run down and sunk with all on board by a new screw steam ship, belonging to The London & Liverpool Steam Packet Co. The Brig was identified by some papers found floating. Her crew consisted of the master, three seamen and a boy. (LARN) Portland. Interestingly the Steam Packet’s not named? … Read Article
Cargo China Clay. Captain McPherson. Hurst Beach, Poole. – LARN, VLI. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 2729: 30/06/1795.