WILLIAM PITT
Ketch – Captain Stokes. Cargo GRANITE. Rescue by Poole Lifeboat, MANLEY WOOD. One rescued (Farr: p133) – The vessel had parted from her cables in Studland Bay. Near Bournemouth Pier. Check ref. DCE: 21/03/1876 p2.
Vessel Type: Ketch
WILD WAVE
WILD WAVE, Brigantine of Exeter – Cargo COAL “Making for Poole struck the Peveril Ledge, near Swanage. Luckily the Coastguard saw the accident, ordered two gigs to be manned and the Rocket Apparatus to be taken to the cliffs. The second line fired fell between the masts and was secured, but no sooner had this … Read Article
WHL
Ketch – (LARN, 1918) – Sunk (Torpedoed) by German Submarine UB-58, 8 miles SSE Portland Bill. Refs. Lloyd’s Register: 1917-18 No. 6(W) & LCWLR: WW1, p197.
VERBENA
A 74 ton wooden hulled Ketch Verbena – Captain C. Marshall. Cargo, Culm. (Fleming: p35), (LePard: pages 96 & 97) & (LARN) – Weymouth Library Photo L910.4.VE5 – Wrecked on the rocks at Blacknor Point, Portland. Wreck was sold where she lay wrecked. See Times References: BOT Wk. Rtn. 1903 Appx. C Table 1 p119 … Read Article
SURPRISE
Bridport Ketch? – Captain J. Gale. (LARN, VLI.) – Portland Chiverock? Refs. DCC: 28/03/1872. & Lloyd’s Register: 1869-70 No. 923(S)
STAR OF PEACE
Ketch – Captain A. Grenfell. Cargo, Oil Cake. (LARN, VLI.) – Portland Bill. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1902 Appx. C Table 1 p135.
STANDARD
Ketch – Captain J. Solley. (LARN) – Lost on Portland Breakwater. Ref. given BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1897 Appx. C Table 1 p153. Echo 3/03/1897
SARAH ANN
Ketch – Captain E. Denyer. Cargo PIPES. (LARN, VLI.) – Poole Harbour. Ref. given BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1896 Appx. C Table 1 p128.
SARAH ANN
Ketch – (LARN) – Captain S. Page. General Cargo. Poole Harbour (Inner). Ref. BOT Wk. Rtn. 1890 Appx. C Table 1 p164(690).
SAINT MICHAEL
French Ketch – Cargo, Vegetabls. (LARN) – 1 mile E Lyme Regis. Report states that the Weymouth Catholic Priest, Canon Julas Ketele acted as interpreter! Source Unknown.