Vessel Type: Sailing

PERU

Barque – Captain listed as H. Barcham – Portland Bill. LARN, VLI. Lloyd’s Register: 1872 No. 188(P).

PERSEVERANCE

Schooner – 110 tons of Cargo China Clay. (LARN, VLI.) – Portland Bill. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1874 Appx. C Table 1.

PERRITON

Sailing Vessel [48M] – (Clarke: GPS; 50 24.18N; 03 01.41W) Sunk by gunfire from an unidentified German Submarine. Captain O. G. Rudge. Cargo FLINTS. The submarine did rescue the crew which they transferred to the trawler ONYX of Brixham where they were landed. Refs. LARN South Devon 1918; LCWLR: WW1 p198; Lloyd’s Register: 1917-18 No. … Read Article

PERGO

Sailing Motor Vessel – Collided with M V ZANZIBAR. Bell recovered around turn of the century, laying upright in fifty eight metres  and reasonably intact with damage along the Portside from collision.

PEGGY

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

PATRIA

PATRIA [26/10/1903] – Barque – Captain D. Danielson. Cargo, Wood.  Name board PATRIA in Portland Museum. EMMA MARIA [25/10/1903] A Russian Schooner carrying a cargo of China Clay got into difficulties in West Bay. Two tugs were sent to the rescue and one, the PETREL managed to get a line on-board but it parted, damaging … Read Article

PATER

Barque – Captain P. Menegheth. (LARN) – South Pool, Portland. Refs. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1881 Appx. Pts I-IV p118 & Dorchester Telegram: 23/12/1881(R).

PALLAS

Schooner – Captain J. Williams. Cargo COAL. According to LARN its PALLAS in Board of Trade Records & PALACE in the DCC and Southern Times. This gale was reported as storm force 10 hurricane; a total of four sailing ships were recorded in these reports. The Coastguards recovered 13 bodies that were washed ashore. The … Read Article

OSIRIS

Cutter which sank following a collision with the S.S. STIRLING CASTLE of Southampton. LARN – Ballard Point, Swanage. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1911 Appx. C Table 1 p103.

ORNEN

Barque – Captain H. Ejsermann. Cargo, Guano. LARN – Portland Bill. Check Southern Times: 30/09/1876 p4.