Vessel Type: Schooner

PERSEVERANCE

Schooner – 110 tons of Cargo China Clay. (LARN, VLI.) – Portland Bill. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1874 Appx. C Table 1.

PALLAS

Schooner – Captain J. Williams. Cargo COAL. According to LARN its PALLAS in Board of Trade Records & PALACE in the DCC and Southern Times. This gale was reported as storm force 10 hurricane; a total of four sailing ships were recorded in these reports. The Coastguards recovered 13 bodies that were washed ashore. The … Read Article

OCEAN BRIDE

Schooner – Captain Anthony Michael. Cargo, Oats. (LARN) – Chesil Beach, Coastguard Station, Langton Herring. One crewman lost, John Fiyim. Refs. DCC: 25/01/1866 & BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1865-69 Table 21 p30.

NORVAL

Western Morning News – Wednesday 02 January 1861 Schooner – (LARN). Captain Corder. West Bay, Chesil Beach. Joseph White & William Flann led a crew of five men (David King, John Flann, John White, George Stone and Henry Mitchell) who put out in their own Lerret to save the crew, earning two silver medals from … Read Article

NETTO

Schooner – Captain T. T. Wigg. Cargo, Salt. (LARN, VLI) – Peveril Ledges, Swanage. Refs. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1900 Appx. C Table 1 p143.

NEPTUNUS

Schooner (LARN, VLI.) Cargo COAL. Off Portland. Refs. Lloyds List: 20/10/1853 & ADM. Wk. Rtn. 1853 p56-7.

MILDRED

Schooner – Captain H. Cohring. Cargo, Salt. (LARN) Sank following a collision with S.S. ELDORADO, 13 miles, S of Anvil Point, Swanage. Refs. cited BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1886 Appx. C Table 1 p146 & Lloyd’s Register: 1883-4? No. 842(M).

MAYFLOWER

Schooner – Captain Tom Godden. Last used as a houseboat, providing teas and other refreshments for holiday makers taking trips around the harbour. Thought to have come from Poole around 1919, and was lived on by four members of the Godden family. Captain Tom being known as Robinson Crusoe – Cleaval Point, Poole. SZ003862. LSWC: … Read Article

MAUD MARY

Polish 3 Masted Schooner – Standfast Point, Old Harry Rocks. LARN & Legg: p85 plus a photograph.

MARY DAVIES

Times: Tuesday, November 27, 1888, Issue 32554 – Lloyd’s Agent at Weymouth telegraphs that the Mary Davies, Welsh schooner, of Borth, drove from her anchors in Weymouth Bay during a heavy south-west gale about 9 p.m. on Sunday. Rockets were fired, and a tug and the lifeboat proceeded to her assistance, and when near Osmington … Read Article