HMS LANDRAIL Motor Torpedo Boat [31M] – (Dive Dorset: 71 p64) & (Diver Guide; Weymouth & Portland: Ed 5 p32 No. 39 – 50 33.74N; 02 37.51W). (Clarke: 50 33.75N, 02 37.54W) Note: HMS LANDRAIL was in collision with SIREN on 11/07/1896. Weymouth Library Pamphlet L910.4, LA5) Sunk in 1906 as a Target. Detail also … Read Article
From the Times January 1924 HMS L24. British Submarine [55M] – Captain Lieut. Cdr Paul L. Eddis. (Comprehensive detail in Dive Dorset: 70 p63 – 50 22.50N; 02 37.79W) & (More detail in LARN) – Sank following a collision with HMS RESOLUTION. 11 miles SW of Portland Bill. (Clear detail and photographs in Le Pard … Read Article
American ‘Landing Ship Tank’ – (Dive Dorset: 52 p54) & Good detail in Clarke: GPS; 50 26.05N; 02 44.65W. Cargo Armament, Trucks and amphibious vehicles.
American ‘Landing Ship Tank’ – (Dive Dorset: 56 p56) & Excellent detail in Clarke: GPS; 50 27.15N; 02 43.55W. Also LARN. [48M] Cargo ARMAMENT (Ordnance & Lorries).
Landing Ship – See LARN 1943 – Weymouth?
Armed 450 ton Naval Trawler [46M] (LARN) – Hired as an anti submarine trawler in September 1939. Hit mine and sank 14 miles SSW of Portland Bill. LARN gives Decca Information. SRN: Vol. 2, p167. & British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW2, p7.
Warship (Drifter) – (LARN) Foundered St Alban’s Head after a collision. Refs. SRN: Vol. 2 p190 & ADM.APV. 1917 p23.
Admiralty Trawler JAMES FENNEL, bound from Gibraltar for Portsmouth [18M] – (Dive Dorset: 125 p103/104 – 50 32.75N; 02 27.30W) & (Clarke: 50 32.78N; 02 27.51W) (Also good local detail in LARN) – Blacknor Point, Portland. (LePard: pages 108 & 109). Farr: p49, Weymouth Library Photograph L910.4 JA.1-8 neg. No. 24/19. Portland Museum Wreck No. … Read Article
Armed Steamship – Captain J. Scott. (Dive Dorset: 201 p150) & (Clarke: p70) (50 27.64, N; 02 07.96W) (LARN) – Sunk (Torpedoed) by German Submarine UC-75, 10 miles SE of Portland Bill. Cargo Military Stores & Cargo RAILWAY (Trucks). Refs. British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW1, p77 & British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats: WW1, … Read Article
Incident – On Sunday evening October 17th, 1948, the Pinnace from HMS ILLUSTRIOUS with about 50 men onboard, many of them young National Servicemen, was returning to the ship after a day out in Weymouth and Dorchester in bad weather when it was swamped and sank in Portland Harbour. In the ensuing tumult 29 young … Read Article