Free French Submarine (P-26) – Dive Dorset: 121 p100 – 50 31.10N; 02 27.58W. Weymouth Library L910.4.M1. W side Portland Bill, 0.5 miles N. Ed C has the ‘V’ from this submarine recovered by Brian Dove in the late sixties. Additional photographs in LePard: pages 92 & 93). Portland Museum No. 19. The MINERVE was … Read Article
French liner MEKNES moving wounded troops [60M] – (Clarke: GPS: 50 11.40N: 02 13.80W) & (Detail in LARN) Sunk by German E-Boats. Off Portland Bill. See also Weymouth Library L940.53159.HO.1. & Dictionary of Disaster at Sea: Vol. 2, p464. A quick look at the “eu wreck register” describes the wreck as follows: “The wreck is … Read Article
HMS Manor was part of Convoy WP 183 which suffered-particularly heavily. The E boats of the 2nd Flotilla struck first. even boats, S 48, S 50, S 63, S 67, S 70, S 104 and s109 (ed by Lieut-Commander Feldt) shattered the small convoy. At 0120 the Commodore’s ship Kongshaug was torpedoed forward of … Read Article
HMS M2. 1918 Submarine [31M] – Captain Lieut. Cdr. ‘RN’ Leathes. (Good detail in Dive Dorset: 102 p93 – 50 34.60N; 02 33.93W – Article, Simon Bird, Divers Guide; Weymouth & Portland, Ed. 4 page 300. (More detail in LARN) – West Bay. (Clarke: 50 34.60N; 02 34.01W with extra detail) War Grave. (Detail and … Read Article
Armed Steamship – Captain R. G. Muir. (Detail in LARN) – Sunk by German Submarine UB-57, 15 miles S of Portland Bill? Refs. LCWLR: WW1, p207; British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW1, p84; British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats: WW1 p173; PRO: Kew Adm. 137/2959 & Lloyd’s Register: 1917-18 No. 1079(L)
Armed Steamship – R. T. B. Harvey. [42M] – (Clarke: GPS; 50 29.612N; 03 16.988W) Torpedoed by German Submarine U-104, Oberleutnant Bieber. The vessel sank at once killing one Spanish seaman. The rest of the crew were picked up by a patrol craft and land at Torquay. Refs. LARN South Devon 1918; Lloyd’s Register: 1915-16 … Read Article
Naval Trawler – (Diver Guide; Weymouth & Portland: Ed 5 p33 No. 78) & (LARN, VLI.) – Hired as an anti submarine trawler in August 1939 Hit mine and sank, 18 miles SW Portland Bill. SRN: Vol. 2 p217. & British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW2, p7.
Anti Submarine Trawler [50M] – (Clarke: GPS; 50 23.25N; 03 02.84W) Sunk by a German E-Boat during convoy WP300.
Warship – (LARN, VLI.) Sank following a collision in Portland Harbour. Ed C assumes she was salvaged? British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW2, p28.
6th rate 12 Gun, Man of War – (LARN) Had entered the Royal Navy in 1642 Captain Isaias Blowfield. Weymouth Bay. Society for Nautical Research: Occ. Pub No.5 Pt. 1: SRN: Vol. 1 p318.; BWLS: p2.