Brig – Cargo STONE. Run down and sunk with all on board by a new screw steam ship, belonging to The London & Liverpool Steam Packet Co. The Brig was identified by some papers found floating. Her crew consisted of the master, three seamen and a boy. (LARN) Portland. Interestingly the Steam Packet’s not named? … Read Article
Brig – (LARN, VLI.) – Chesil Cove. Captain Hedaway. Cargo, Bagged Wheat & Flour. One crew member, the mate, drowned. Check Dor. Mag: 1976 No. 50 p18.
Sailing Vessel – (LARN) – Chesil Cove. Captain John Hayer and six men drowned, the mate and three crew were saved. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 2825: 03/06/1796. Times Times: Thursday, June 2, 1796, Issue 3601 – Weymouth, May 31: “Between 10 & 11 in the forenoon, a snow from Guernsey to Alicante, the Flora, Captain … Read Article
A 200 Ton Norwegian Brig – Captain Abrahamson. Cargo, Deals. (LARN, VLI.) Opposite the Railway Station at Chesil Beach. All seven crew rescued. Refs. Southern Times: 17/10/1891; Lloyd’s Casualty Returns: 1891 p14(h) & Lloyd’s Register: 1888-9 No. 3670(O)
Brig – Captain Perian (LARN, VLI.) – Chesil Cove. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 2533: 13/08/1793.
Times: Monday, October 20, 1862, Issue 24382 – The brig Mary of Weymouth (Coal) sank in Shields Harbour. Ship Incident of a Local Vessel Times: Wednesday, October 22, 1862, Issue 24383 – Continued Extreme Gales; “Shields, Monday midnight; The brig Mary of Weymouth, coal laden, broke from her moorings and drove, stern foremost towards Messrs … Read Article
Times: Monday, February 12, 1883, Issue 30741 – “Lloyd’s Agent at Lowestoft telegraphed on Saturday that the brig, Marnhill of Weymouth, Captain Fowler. From London for Middlesborough laden with scrap iron, grounded on the Pakefield Gat that morning. The crew, except one man were saved by the Keeingland lifeboat. The vessel is a wreck.” Ship … Read Article
WRECK OF A FRENCH SCHOONER. A stirring though sad episode In the uneventful life of this little village was the wreck early on Sunday morning of the French schooner Marie Aliene, of Nantes. The vessel, it seems, had been in collision late Saturday night with an unknown vessel off Portland, and with 8ft. of water … Read Article
Times: Monday, December 14, 1857, Issue 22863 – “Brig, Maria of Weymouth, Cousins master, in going into the Tagus struck on the North Cuchas Bank, and had to be beached, which was done abreast of the town of Traffraria; the greater portion of the cargo will be saved, but the ship has become a total … Read Article
Brigantine – Captain R. Fittall. Cargo COAL. Poole. Refs. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1885. Appx. C Table 1 p129 & Lloyd’s Register: 1883-4 No. 272(M)