LORD JOHN RUSSEL

Smack – Captain J. Hixson. (LARN) – Studland Bay. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1891 Appx. C Table 1 p137.

LORD DUFFUS

Schooner of Inverness bound from St Domingo for London – Captain A. Z. Speight. Cargo, Mahogany. (LARN & Farr: p45.) Note: The bodies of the six crew were placed in coffins and laid side by side in a small hut, previously used as Lloyd’s Signal Station. – Shag Cliff, Portland. Other refs. BOT: Wk. Rtn. … Read Article

LORD ALCESTAR

Sailing Barge/Ketch (London) – Captain W. King. Cargo Clay. LARN – Poole Breakwater. Note: Poole Lifeboat HARMER saved the crew of four. Farr: List p133.

LIVONIA

Ketch – Cargo STONE – Lyme Regis. LARN, VLI. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1910 Appx. C Table 3 p114.

LITTLE MYSTERY

LITTLE MYSTERY Schooner – Captain J. H. Greet. Cargo COAL. (Good detail in LARN) ” Carrying 168 tons of cargo was stopped by an unidentified German Submarine at 7 a.m., when the enemy vessel went alongside and her Commander fired several shots at the crew with his pistol, wounding one man in the arm. The crew … Read Article

LITTLE JENNY

Sailing Vessel – Captain A. B. Mansell. Peveril Point, Swanage. BOT: Wk. Rtn 1884. LARN, VLI.

LITTLE BELT

Smack – Wrecked on Chesil Beach – Fleming: p26 VLI.

LINDERHURST

Galliot – Captain Cursten drowned, crew saved and probably the cargo. (LARN) – Portland Beach. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 1518: 21/11/1783.

LILY

Fishing Smack – Captain G. Gust – (LARN, VLI.) – Lyme Regis. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1881 Appx. C Table 1.

LICENCE TO KILL

British Sloop, sank having caught fire. – Dive Dorset: 210 p154: GPS; 50 34.40N; 02.03.83W – 1 mile outside Chapman’s Pool.