Sailing Vessel – (LARN) Captain Wilson. Cargo STONE (unspecified). Quote “on Friday last was drove on shore near Weymouth, loaded with Stone for London, there were two Men and two Boys on Board, all of whom perished with the Cold” Stone Wreck @ Pier? Reference given Lloyds List: No. 3,335: 05/01/1768.
Sailing Vessel. Captain De Groote. Cargo, Citrus Fruit. – Off St Alban’s Head. St James’s Chronicle & London Evening Post, 17 to 20/04/1813.
Sailing Vessel – (LARN) – Portland. “wine laden was boarded and her cables cut, so that she drove ashore on the island where the wine was carried off by the transgressors.” The ref. is noted as (Warren: p52).
Sailing Vessel – (LARN) – Chesil Beach, near Abbotsbury. There is a note that this wreck is shown on Isaac Taylor’s map of Dorset. Ref. Dor. Mag: No.48, 1975 p15.
French Brig – Wrecked on the Chesil Beach with the loss of her entire crew and five brave Portland men who tried in vain to save them. (Fleming: p18) Needs further local research. NIL
Pilot Cutter – (LARN) – Sunk by a Danish steamship S.S. JAN. The steamer approached the SPIRIT for a pilot but in a careless and un-seamenlike manner struck and sank her, the cutter going down in two minutes, causing the death of the Pilot, James Zelley. Action was taken against the Danish owners. Check Dorset … Read Article
Sailing Vessel – Captain Wilkinson. (LARN) – Reported Cargo TIN Ingots. – Passage Bridge, near Weymouth. Check the Ref. Southern Times: 11/01/1879. See Times Times: Thursday, January 9, 1879, Issue 29460 – “The Speedy, cutter of Jersey, from Penance for Havre, laden with block tin has gone ashore near Passage Bridge, between Weymouth and Portland; … Read Article
Sloop – 1.5 miles off Christchurch. Cargo STONE (LIMESTONE, may be chippings?) LARN, VLI. & BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1873-80. Summery Part III p102-3.
Brigantine – Captain H. F. Hines. Crew abandoned the vessel after being hit 3 times by gunfire from a German Submarine, 9 miles S by E, Beer Head. Vessel was sunk by scuttling charges. Survivors were picked up and landed at Brixham. Refs. LCWLR: WW1, p206; British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW1, p84; Lloyd’s Register: … Read Article
Brig – Captain Aulie. Cargo, Softwood. (LARN) – Studland Bay, Poole. Refs. Lloyd’s Casualty Returns: 1891(H) p14 & Lloyd’s Register: 1888-9 No. 1346(S)