Vessel Type: Sailing

GOODWILL

Smack – Cargo, Furniture. (LARN) – Near Bincleaves. VLI. Check DCC: 31/01/1856.

CHRISTIAN’S FLEET

Aeolus, Golden Grove, Catherine, Piedmont, Venus, Hannah, Harmony, Pitt and the Thomas Depiction of the Loss of the Catharine, Mrs Burns seen in the doorway In November 1795 the English fleet had left Spithead under the command of Rear Admiral Hugh Cloberry CHRISTIAN. The fleet consisted of about 200 heavily laden troops, ordnance transports and … Read Article

GOLDEN GROVE

Naval Transport – See ‘Christian’s Fleet by Edwina Boult, ISBN 0-7524-2783-0. Particularly p111 to p112 ) (Also LARN) – Chesil Beach, off Fleet. (Dor. Mag: 1975 No. 48) Captain Hodzard. Gentleman’s Magazine: 1795, p964. See Christian’s Fleet

GOLDEN GRAPE

Schooner – (LARN) – Chesil Beach, near Wyke. Seven of the twenty man crew were drowned near the Smallmouth Ferry. The manifest listed 12 butts of Sherry, 400 jars of Olives, 2000 barrels of Raisons and 240 pieces of silver & gold (pistoles and pieces of eight). When the Excise officials examined the wrecked the … Read Article

GOLDEN FLEECE

Sailing Vessel – (LARN, VLI) – Chesil Beach. Dor. Mag: 1975 No. 48 p14-15.

GLOBE

Sailing Vessel – Captain Bell, Cargo COAL. Peveril Ledge, Swanage. LARN, VLI. Ref. Dor. Mag: 1976, No. 50, p18.

GLIMPSE

Schooner – Captain C. P. Lockyer. Cargo COAL – (LARN, VLI.) – 20 miles SW Portland Bill. Refs. Lloyd’s Register: 1896-7 No. 520(G). & BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1900 Appx. C Table 1 p112.

GIPSY QUEEN

Brigantine – Captain G. A. Chaddock. Cargo, Guano. (LARN) ‘After stranding on Kimmeridge Ledge, several attempts were made to get her off. The Liverpool and London Salvage Association are in charge of her, and the tug ADMIRAL has taken off part of her stores and landed them at Poole.’ Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. p99 & … Read Article

GEORGIANA

Barque – (Interesting detail in LARN) – Captain, Martin De La Berre. Crew & Passengers saved by the Rocket Apparatus. Note: Receiver at Weymouth was R. G. Cutesman. Salvage by a Captain Cosens. Chapman’s Pool. Reports in Southern Times: 24/02/1866 & 06/03/1866 Times: Saturday, February 17, 1866, Issue 25424 – Weymouth, Thursday: The French bark … Read Article

GEORGE

Smack – (LARN, VLI.) – Lyme Regis. BOT: USC 1862 p676-7.