LE PELERIN
Sailing Vessel – (LARN, VLI.) – Chesil Cove. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 1593: 10/08/1784.
Vessel Type: Sailing
LE FOI
French Smack – The Mixen, Weymouth Harbour. DCC: 12/02/1857. “On Monday week the French fishing smack LE FOI, of Dieppe, went ashore on the “Mixen”, at the entrance of the Harbour. The crew appear to have mistaken the channel which leads into the port. As the accident happened at nearly high water, all attempts to … Read Article
LAVONIA
Yawl – Captain W. Wellum. – (LARN, VLI.) – Portland Roads. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1898 Appx. C Table 1 p139.
LAUREATE
Cutter/Yacht – Captain Strickland. Details in LARN; DCP: 31/10/1887, [Southern Times – Special Edition 31/10/1887] & Dor. Mag: 1975 No.49, p47. – Portland Breakwater. Two survivors. Check to see if DCP is DCC. See also Times The Laureate – 1887 Taken from Shipwrecks by M. Attwooll, p52. “A year after the fortunate escape of the … Read Article
LAURA
Brig from Prince Edward Island – (LARN, VLI.) – Captain listed as J. Nicholson. 20 miles S of Bridport Harbour. Ref. Lloyd’s Register: 1866, No. 143.
LA SERVANNAISE
Towed into Weymouth. Photograph Only. In collision with BRITISH LADY, see LePard: p 18-19.
LA BONNE ANNE
French Brigantine from Granville, Cargo, Salt, Lost on Portland Beach, Of 14 crew 13 were drowned. (Attwooll) & Sh Mercury.
LARK
Sailing Vessel Flag Head, Sandbanks, Poole Harbour. LARN & Farr: p114, VLI.
LANOMA
665 Ton Iron Hulled Barque 1888 – (Details in LARN) (Weymouth Library Photo L.910.4.LA2, Neg. No.3. – Chesil Beach, opposite Fleet. Note: Rocket Apparatus deployed. Tombstone in Newstead Cemetery, Weymouth. This ship once held the record for the ‘Australia Run’ Twelve of her eighteen man crew were lost including Captain Wittingham. Picture of wreckage in … Read Article
LANCELOT
Sailing Barge – Cargo CEMENT (Bagged). Weymouth Library Photo. L919.4 LA6. 100 yards W of Bridport Pier Head. Ran ashore near the Harbour piers at West Bay. She was re-floated and repaired. Ref. Southern Times: 04/12/1909 & LePard: p 139.