Vessel Type: Sailing

UNION

Smack from Fowey – Breakwater. See ‘Salvage Case’ courtesy Portland Historical Sources: NIL

ULVERSTONE

Barque – (LARN) – Captain John George Sawyer. Cargo COAL (& COKE). Half a mile off Portland Bill. Collided with a vessel causing fatal damage. Other vessel failed to help. Crew managed to get away and met up with the Pilot vessel TURK who took them on board. The other vessel was identified as the … Read Article

TWO BROTHERS

Smack, hull sold as it lay on the beach. Chesil Beach. Refs. Lloyds List: 25/10/1853 p709. & ADM. Wk. Rtn. 1853 p60-1. The Standard, October 24, 1853, Issue 9114. Plymouth to Quebec. Crew saved.

TWO BROTHERS

Sailing vessel. Captain Gesratt. – Studland Bay. Refs. LARN & Sh. Merc: 02/08/1802.

TOURNY

DCC: 07/02/1907; “Collision in the Channel off Portland – On Thursday night a French fishing smack, TOURNY, was run into by an unknown steamer in the Channel and sank immediately. The captain, whose name was Francois, and six men were drowned. One French sailor, whose name as yet is unknown, was picked up by a … Read Article

THREE RELATIONS

Sailing Vessel – Captain Keir. (LARN) – Chesil Cove. Note: “The THREE RELATIONS, CONCORD and the RODNEY all lost on Portland Beach. Crew saved” Report does not specifically say all crews? Four ships were lost this day? The other was DE TRENDE SODIKENDE. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 4002: 27/09/1799.

THOMAS & MARY

Smack – (LARN, VLI.) – Sandsfoot Castle. May be additional material in Southern Times: 25/10/1879.

THOMAS & KATE

Dandy – Captain T. Luen. Cargo Sand. (LARN) – Loaded sand at Bridport Harbour put back to sea just before a gale. She was driven ashore at East Cliff, Bridport. The captain, two men and a boy were all saved by the Coastguard using the Rocket Apparatus (Rocket?) Refs. cited DCE: 14/03/1876 & Lloyd’s Register: … Read Article

THOMAS & ANN

Sailing Vessel – Captain Jordan. (LARN, VLI.) – Foundered off Portland and the crew were saved. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 4602: 01/10/1811.

THOMAS

Sailing Vessel – (LARN) Captain Brown. – Chesil Beach, off Fleet. (See mention in ‘Christian’s Fleet by Edwina Boult, ISBN: 0-7524-2783-0. p 119/120) ” Those lost included the captain, his son, the surgeon, seven seamen, a young male passenger and three female passengers. The saved were two seamen and a male passenger named Smyth. The … Read Article