Large Sailing Vessel – (LARN) – Portland Beach. Note: Very similar to LA MERCURIA ? This reference comes from Lloyds List. Both refer to similar cargos items e.g. lemons, almonds and raisons. Useful names mentioned in this report are; Wine casks with Faylett & Co. & Louis Borgasse. ‘Havre’ & ‘Ninnick’ carved on a piece … Read Article
Small sailing boat MERCEDES, report in the DCC: 16/07/1914; “SAILING BOAT SUNK – EXCITING RESCUE IN THE BAY. – The Franklin Sailing Club’s races in Weymouth Bay on Wednesday afternoon produced a great deal more excitement than usual, owing to an alarming mishap to the MERCEDES, which was sailed by Messrs. J. L. Pearce and … Read Article
Schooner – Captain Tom Godden. Last used as a houseboat, providing teas and other refreshments for holiday makers taking trips around the harbour. Thought to have come from Poole around 1919, and was lived on by four members of the Godden family. Captain Tom being known as Robinson Crusoe – Cleaval Point, Poole. SZ003862. LSWC: … Read Article
Sailing Vessel – Weymouth Library Photo L910.4, MA.15 – Struck by a vessel from the New Zealand Steamship Co. Off Portland Bill. LARN, VLI. No other refs.
Polish 3 Masted Schooner – Standfast Point, Old Harry Rocks. LARN & Legg: p85 plus a photograph.
Barque – Captain Watt’nbach. (LARN, VLI.) Check DCC: 01/04/1858. Portland Bill.
Times: Tuesday, November 27, 1888, Issue 32554 – Lloyd’s Agent at Weymouth telegraphs that the Mary Davies, Welsh schooner, of Borth, drove from her anchors in Weymouth Bay during a heavy south-west gale about 9 p.m. on Sunday. Rockets were fired, and a tug and the lifeboat proceeded to her assistance, and when near Osmington … Read Article
Schooner – Off Abbotsbury, Chesil Beach. The Plymouth Schooner was a victim of the 1838 Gale. She was on her way to Glasgow from Ipswich loaded with barley, five of her six crew were lost. See also LARN, VLI. Ref. Dor. Mag: 1975 No. 49 p23.
Schooner – Captain Gilbert. Cargo CEMENT (Bagged). (LARN, VLI.) – 12 miles WNW of Portland Bill. Check Ref. Southern Times: 12/11/1921.
Ketch – Captain T. Collins. Cargo, Wood. (LARN) – Poole Harbour mouth. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1891 Appx. C Table 1 p139(665).