HMS HOOD Battleship [15M] – (Detail and photograph in Dive Dorset: 140 p111) & (Divers Guide; Weymouth & Portland Ed 5 p17 No. 2) – 50 34.10N; 02 25.22W. (Detail in LARN). Excellent display at Weymouth Museum. (More detail, particularly on Diver Robert J. Symonds and photographs in LePard: pages 48 & 49). Portland Museum … Read Article
Extreme Gales: Interesting report; Galley from HMS Hind commanded by 26 year old, Mr. James Hall was washed overboard at Radcliff-point (Redcliff?) Boat beached a mile from the Esplanade. More detail. Also: Smack Hope of Weymouth, Deering master and owner was wrecked at Swanage. Him, his two sons, and one crew drowned. A boat from … Read Article
Built as an Armed Trawler [43M] – (LARN) – Hit mine and sank 14 miles W of Portland Bill. Clarke: GPS; 50 29.43N; 02 54.61W). SRN: Vol. 2, p167. & British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW2, p8.
Armed Steamship – (LARN) Captain J. F. Anderson. Cargo, Coal. Possibly Hit mine laid by German Submarine UC-62. Passing vessel S.S. ETONIAN heard shouts in the water and sent out a distress call. A patrol vessel found the ships papers but no survivors. – 8 miles S by E of Anvil Point. Refs. LCWLR: WW1, … Read Article
Times: Tuesday, September 27, 1892, 33754 – Naval cruiser Hawke runs aground at Portland Harbour. MMI. Ship Incident
Merchant Steamship [39M] – Captain A. N. Shelton. Cargo MILITARY (Stores) (950 tons), Vehicles & Fodder. Detail in Dive Dorset: 203 P151: GPS; 50 30.74N; 02 06.42W. & LARN. Torpedoed by German Submarine, UC-62 amidships. Three crew missing but the remainder picked up by by the Italian S.S. ANTONIO, transferred to Patrol Ships and landed … Read Article
Whaler Minesweeper [58M] – (Clarke: GPS; 50 24.11N; 03 01.19W) Sunk by German E-boats. NIL.
Naval Ordnance Transport – See ‘Christian’s Fleet by Edwina Boult, ISBN 0-7524-2783-0. (Sherbourne & Yeovil Mercury, Monday 30th November, 1795. Stranded near Hill’s Harbour? See Christian’s Fleet
Naval Ordnance Transport – See ‘Christian’s Fleet by Edwina Boult, ISBN 0-7524-2783-0. (LARN, 1795) – 4 Miles E of Weymouth near Hills Harbour, Purbeck. Captain Hickman. “- carrying ordnance stores, was run foul of the transport HARMONY, which was in the same convoy, causing the HANNAH to go ashore near Hills harbour.” See Christian’s Fleet
Warship which foundered following an explosion of ammunition. Poole Harbour. LARN, VLI. Check Ref. British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW2.