Vessel Type: Sailing

FIENDE SODFKENDE

Sailing Ship – Captain Hendrick Kear. (LARN) – Chesil Beach, near Abbotsbury. Check Sh. Mercs: 30/09/1799 & 07/10/1799.

DEMETRIUS

Devon Sailing Vessel – Captain Dunsford. Cargo, Pit Props. (LARN) – Watch house, near Bridport. Note: Mortar Apparatus fired a line, but because of the strong SW gale, it blew it a considerable distance to the east and into the water. Whereupon, the mate of a ship in the harbour rushed into the sea, took … Read Article

DELIGHT

Schooner – Captain Butcher. (LARN, VLI.) – Portland Bill. Check ref. DCC: 29/10/1840 for more information.

DAPHNE

Schooner – Cargo COAL. Captain Salisbury. Lyme Regis harbour, 100yds E North Wall. Loss on vessel £450, Loss on cargo £30. Refs, Lloyds List: 29/11/1852 & Adm. Wk. Rtn. 1852.

UNKNOWN

DANISH BRIG – Unknown name but was one of the victims of the 1824 Gale. Wreck on Chesil Beach near Abbotsbury. Ref. Dor. Mag: 1975 No.49 p24 & 1976 No. 50 p18.

DANIEL

Brigantine – “Collision – The DANIEL brigantine Captain Nicholas from Middlesborough for Llanelly in coming in from sea on Thursday night collided with the barque LORD BYRON , Johnstone master from the Tyne for Savona carrying away part of her port quarter deck house and inflicting sundry other damage. The DANIEL sustained damage to cutwater-head … Read Article

CYNTHIA

Brig – (LARN, VLI.) – Captain listed as J. P. Fox – Portland. Ref. Lloyd’s Register: 1866 No. 1080(C).

CROWN OF DENMARK

Two masted sailing barge. Swept onto the Portland Harbour Breakwater. Re-floated. (LePard: pages 58 & 59, notes that Captain Howard of the CROWN OF DENMARK was one of the witnesses to the sinking of the M2) NIL. See Times Times: Wednesday, January 14, 1931, Issue 45720 – Crown of Denmark – Portland, Dorset, Jan. 13 … Read Article

COURIER

Cutter – Sank at moorings. LARN, VLI.) – Poole Harbour. Ref. cited BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1892 Appx. C Table 3 p172.

COURIER

French Smack – (LARN, VLI.) – Charmouth, West Hay Farm, Lyme Regis. Captain listed as J. A. F. Le Herrissier. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1872. Pt. II Table 21 p44.