Vessel Type: Sailing

SARAH ANN

Ketch – (LARN) – Captain S. Page. General Cargo. Poole Harbour (Inner). Ref. BOT Wk. Rtn. 1890 Appx. C Table 1 p164(690).

SARAH

Brigantine – Captain W. Norris. Cargo COAL. (LARN, VLI.) – Worbarrow Bay. Ref. given BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1877. Appx. Pts I-IV p115(315)

SARAH

Sailing Vessel – Milkmaid Bank, Poole Harbour. Refs. LARN, VLI & DCC: 30/09/1856.

SARAH

Lyme Schooner Broke from her moorings and smashed to pieces. Captain Cox. Lyme Regis. LARN & DCC: 30/12/1852. 1852 Gale

SARAH

Brig – (LARN, VLI.) – Portland Bill. Ref. quoted is Weymouth, Portland & Dorchester Telegram: 07/03/1861 p4. (The 1861 needs checking?)

SARAH

Aris’s Birmingham Gazette – Monday 27 May 1745 Sailing Vessel – (LARN, VLI.) – Portland Beach. Try Sh. Merc: 28/05/1745.

SAPPHIRE

Schooner – DCC: 16/08/1885 – Cargo COAL. Captain T. Stuart (LARN) & (Farr: p42) The whole crew were saved by the Rocket Apparatus. – Chesil Cove See also Times DCC:16/08/1885 (Transcription by K. V. Saunders). “The SAPPHIRE schooner, of Newcastle, Captain Stewart, was wrecked on Wednesday afternoon in Chesil Cove. She left Newcastle on the … Read Article

SAN SALVADOR

Part of the Spanish Armada of 1588, this Man of War (800 tons) was one of the most heavily armed of the ships which acted as the headquarters for the Paymaster. While off Dorset there was a large explosion on board, it was said to be sabotage by a German gunner who had been cuckolded … Read Article

SAMUEL

A schooner which broke up on the rocks below St Alban’s Head. 3 crew drowned. (Rodney Legg, p52) NIL. Note: Worth Matravers Burials. 19/11/1836: John Harvey Clovelly; John Harvey Junior Clovelly & John Green, Bristol. Schooner wrecked on passage from Waterford to Portsmouth.

SALLY

Smack – Dor. Mag: 1975 No. 49 p24 & ibid 1976 50 p18 – Osmington Mills, Weymouth. 1824 Gale. Reference needs checking. LARN has second entry for 1838? Check the Dorset Magazine. Times [1/12/1824] Times: Wednesday, December 1, 1824, Issue 12512 – Weymouth, Nov 28: Two Sisters, from Malaga, of and bound for Hamburg, laden … Read Article