HMS REMINDO. Admiralty Trawler [50M] – (Dive Dorset: 55 – 50 26.17N; 02 43.64W) 3 Officers & 16 Naval Ratings lost off Portland Bill. (Clarke: GPS; 50 26.16N; 02 43.74W) Reason for sinking not known. Ref. SRN: Vol. 2 P297. & ADM.APV. 1919 p9e.
HMS RECOIL. German Trawler [48 to 52M] – (Dive Dorset: 54 p55, GPS – 50 26.37N; 02 44.02 (11)W) This ship was requisitioned for Naval service by the British. Hit mine and sank 12 miles WSW of Portland Bill. SRN: Vol. 2 p217. British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW2, p7. [Ex – Blackenburg. Built as … Read Article
Armed Trawler – (LARN) – Lost Portland Bill following a collision. Check also SRN: Vol. 2 p290; Lloyd’s Register: 1915-16 No. 6(Q) & ADM.APV. 1919.
PITT [18/11/1795] – Naval Stores Transport – See ‘Christian’s Fleet by Edwina Boult, ISBN 0-7524-2783-0. Sank W of St Aldham’s ( Aldhelm’s or Oldham’s) Head. (Sh. Merc: 30/11/1795). See Christian’s Fleet
Naval Transport – See ‘Christian’s Fleet by Edwina Boult, ISBN 0-7524-2783-0. Particularly p 112 to 115.) (LARN) – Chesil Beach, off Fleet. (Dor. Mag: 1975 No. 48 p10) Master and 138 troops and seamen dead, only 18 troops and seamen saved. Vessel ashore almost opposite Chickerall. Narrative. See Christian’s Fleet
A captured French vessel (FAISEN), 14 gun 6th rate Man of War, taken by the ALBANY in April 1761 – (LARN) – Weymouth [May have been taken into Weymouth] Refs. SRN Vol. 1 p419. & Lloyds List: No. 2686: 09/10/1761.
5th Rate, 28 Gun, Man of War – (LARN) – Portland. SRN: Vol. 1 p413; List of Men of War 1650-1700, Pt 1; BWLS: p6 & Mentioned in Anderson p18.
HMS P 555. EX S Class, US Submarine [34M] – (Detail in Dive Dorset: 104, p94 – 50 30.87N; 02 33.43W) – Sunk by Royal Navy as an ASDIC target. (LARN, Trim: & Clarke: have the date of scuttling 25/08/1947. SRN: Vol. 1 p405. & Divers Guide; Weymouth & Portland: p27. Built by: Bethlehem Steel … Read Article
HMS Motor Boat No. 149, destroyed by fire in Poole Harbour. Ref. cited ADM.APV. 1919.
Moidart on the slipway for repair after a previous accident Armed Merchant Steamship [40M] – Captain H. Arthurson. Cargo COAL & Cargo STEEL (Bar). (Dive Dorset: 42 p50. – 50 34.02N; 02 47.22W) & (Clarke: 50 34.03N; 02 47.29W) (Considerable detail also in LARN) – Sunk (Torpedoed) by German Submarine UC-77, 7 miles SE of … Read Article