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
Shipping and Mercantile Gazette – Wednesday 21 April 1852 Galliot (Guns?) – (LARN) – Collided with Schooner TRITON of Emdem, master Bakker. Only the Captain, his brother and a boy were saved, four crew lost, cargo was salt. Chesil Cove. Refs. cited Adm. Wk. Reg. 1852 p64-65 & Lloyds List: 17, 19, & 21/04/1852.
Schooner – Captain W. Lewis. Cargo COAL. (LARN) – Scuttled by German Submarine, 25 miles SW Portland Bill. Ref. British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW1, p42; LCWLR: WW1, p117 &Lloyd’s Register: 1916-17 No. 170(M).
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)
Schooner – (LARN) – Chesil Beach with all six crew drowned. Note: Cargo SLATE (Roofing). Five bodies were recovered from the Portland Beach. Refs. DCC: 29/10/1835; Dorset Records Office: John Thomas Elliott’s Diary & Dor. Mag: No. 58, p24.
Times: Wednesday, November 2, 1887, Issue 32219 – Extreme Gale: “A large steamer, name unknown, has gone ashore off St Alban’s Head. The brigantine Maren, from Mexico for Hamburg, with logwood, went ashore in Weymouth Bay yesterday morning, and her crew landed in the afternoon in the lifeboat. The Italian brig Vincinzine has arrived in … Read Article
Sailing Vessel. Lost near St Alban’s Head. LARN, VLI. May be more in BOT: USC p628-629.
Large three Masted Schooner MADELAINE TRISTAN – Captain Vallon. Cargo, Grain. Detail in Portland Museum & Weymouth Library L910.4.MA1-MA22. Also Photo L942.33.BU3. Chesil Cove. (Some detail in LARN, 1930) Rocket Apparatus. Good local story. Excellent pictures also in LePard: pages 116, 117, 118 & 119. Other refs. Burnett: p57; Southern Times: 12/09/1931. Portland Museum No. … Read Article
Sailing Vessel – (LARN, VLI.) – 20 miles SSW Portland Bill. Refs. LCWLR: WW1, p101 & British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW1, p36.