Vessel Type: Motor Vessel

ML 431

A ‘B’ Class Motor Launch – Caught fire at anchor totally destroyed – Poole Harbour. LARN & SRN: Vol. 2 p239. Also cited ADM.APV 1919.

MIRANDA

Western Daily Press – Saturday 01 October 1977 Stolen Motor Yacht – (LARN) – Ended up on Chesil Beach. It is uncertain whether the thief survived or not! Sunday Express: 20/11/1977.

MAJORCA

Panamanian Motor Vessel [45M] Cargo, Fertiliser. (LARN) Sank about 25 miles off Berry Head Lyme Bay. All the crew were saved by the Torbay lifeboat. (Clarke: GPS; 50 20.20N; 02 57.56W) Ref. Lloyds List: No. 52170:10/09/1982 & L Spurling Database (Lloyd’s Register:)?

MFV No. 9

Motor Fishing Vessel – (LARN, VLI.) – 2.5 miles WSW of Langton Coastguard Station, Chesil Beach.

MFV 1089

Fishing vessel 1089 developed engine trouble in thick fog off Chesil beach and ran aground. Two of the crew came ashore and had no idea where they were other than on the Chesil somewhere! After a long walk in freezing conditions they managed to summon help near Portland Isle and the local Coastguard assisted the … Read Article

MFV

MFV (Motor Fishing Vessel) [Circa 1986] – (Dive Dorset: 139 p110 & Divers Guide; Weymouth & Portland: Ed. 4 No. 16) – 50 35.25N; 02 25.28W – Portland Breakwater.

LESRIX

Motor vessel – Captain George Semison. Cargo COAL – Off Portland Bill. LARN ” The 63 year old master of this vessel was a survivor of 300 wartime convoys through the channel, known as ‘Bomb Alley’. During 250 of these his ship had been under attack, or fired at by German coastal guns or E-Boats. … Read Article

INNISINVER

Motor Vessel [42M] – LARN – (Detail in Dive Dorset: 101 p92: – 50 29.35N; 02 35.13W) & Clarke: GPS 50 29.40N; 02 35.22W) – 5 miles off Portland Bill. Refs. Lloyd’s Casualty Returns: 1930 p8(g); & Lloyd’s Register: 1926-27 No. 72904(I)

GRETA C

Motor Vessel, (was EASTERN TRADER). [51M] – (LARN) Foundered 15 miles SW of Portland Bill. Cargo GRANITE (Chips). See Portsmouth News: 07/09/1974. (Clarke: GPS; 50 21.02N; 02 59.12W).

CORONELLA

Motorised Yacht – Poole Harbour LARN, VLI. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1909 Appx C Table 1 p134.