Deeper Dorset

LITTLE BELT

Smack – Wrecked on Chesil Beach – Fleming: p26 VLI.

LILY

Fishing Smack – Captain G. Gust – (LARN, VLI.) – Lyme Regis. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1881 Appx. C Table 1.

The French Smack ‘Le Jean Bart’ with a cargo of hides wrecked at the base of the cliffs at Burton Bradstock. Five of the nine crew were saved by local villagers hauling them to safety up the cliffs. (Fleming: p23) Victim of the 1838 Gale. Ref. Dor. Mag: 1975 No. 49 p23. From the registers … Read Article

LE FOI

French Smack – The Mixen, Weymouth Harbour. DCC: 12/02/1857. “On Monday week the French fishing smack LE FOI, of Dieppe, went ashore on the “Mixen”, at the entrance of the Harbour. The crew appear to have mistaken the channel which leads into the port. As the accident happened at nearly high water, all attempts to … Read Article

JOHN

Smack (LARN, VLI.) – Cargo BRICKS. Chesil Beach, Langton Herring. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1849-60 p116.

INDUSTRY

Smack – (LARN, VLI.) – Swanage Bay. Ref. BOT: USC 1862 p672-3.

INDUS

Smack – (LARN, VLI.) Old Harry Ledge, Swanage. Ref. BOT: USC 1862 Vol. 1 Appx. p673.

HORATIO

Guernsey Smack – Captain Roberts (LARN) – Drove ashore on the West Beach, opposite Wyke. Cargo BRICKS & wine. – Wyke Beach, Weymouth. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 10/11/1852 & ADM: Wk. Rtn. 1852.

HOPE

Lyme Regis, Dandy /Smack – The Honfleur fishing smack VICTOIRE DESIREE braved the Portland Race to save three crew. Pierre Picard thus joined the distinguished band of Frenchmen to received a silver medal from the National Lifeboat Institution. Farr: p39.

HOPE

Information from the A. E. Cocksedge Archive. A Portland built boat. Wrecked on the Peveril Ledges. Times: Saturday, December 25, 1819, Issue 10811 – Weymouth: Extreme Gales: Interesting report; Galley from HMS Hind commanded by 26 year old, Mr. James Hall was washed overboard at Radcliff-point (Redcliff?) Boat beached a mile from the Esplanade. More … Read Article