Deeper Dorset

HOPEDALE

Steamship [35M] – (Clarke: GPS; Not given) Collided with S.S. ELMSGARTH off St Catherine’s Point. NIL.

Steamer [11M] – (Excellent detail & photograph in Dive Dorset: 131 p106 to p107: GPS; 50 34.70N; 02 26.50W) (More detail in LARN, 1939). “HIMALAYA built 1855 by Mare & Co. (Blackwall) for P & O Company to carry 400 passengers. 372ft. 2in. overall 3,438 tons gross (largest merchant ship of the day). Plates … Read Article

HILDEGARDE

London Steamship [7M] – Captain J. J. Huntley. Cargo Iron Ore (Spanish) for Newcastle. Farr: p87 & LARN – (A little detail in Dive Dorset: 204 p152: GPS; 50 35.30N; 02 06.10W.) Driven ashore at Freshwater. Ref. Lloyd’s Register: 1896-7 No. 417(H)

HESLEDON HALL

Steamship – Captain T. Austin. Cargo IRON (Ore). (LARN) – 30 miles off Portland Bill. Southern Times: 31/07/1880 p5; ‘Sank following a collision with the London registered steamship TERLINGS. The vessel sank within minutes her bow having been stove in.’ Ref. Lloyd’s Register: 1878-9 No. 18(H)(Supp).

HAZELWOOD

Armed Steamship – (LARN) Captain J. F. Anderson. Cargo, Coal. Possibly Hit mine laid by German Submarine UC-62. Passing vessel S.S. ETONIAN heard shouts in the water and sent out a distress call. A patrol vessel found the ships papers but no survivors. – 8 miles S by E of Anvil Point. Refs. LCWLR: WW1, … Read Article

HAYTION

‘HAM WRECK’ – Steam Vessel [3M] – (Dive Dorset: 122 p102), (Divers Guide; Weymouth & Portland Ed 5 p16-17 No. 10) GPS; 50 34.68N; 02 27.52W. NIL.

HARTLEY

Steamship – Captain W. Pearson. Cargo COAL. Shipped water and sunk in heavy seas. (LARN, 1924) – 14 miles SSE Anvil Point. Refs. Dictionary of Disaster at Sea: Vol. 1 p303; Lloyd’s Register: 1924-25 No. 89118(H)(supp) & Lloyd’s Casualty Returns: 1924(b) p5. Hartley – Steamer THE TIMES 28TH NOVEMBER 1924: WRECK OFF SWANAGE – STEAMER … Read Article

HARTLEPOOL

Hartlepool, a 5,500 ton Merchant Steamship [12M] – (Dive Dorset: 136 p109: GPS: 50 36.49N, 02 25.47W) – Victim of a daring torpedo attack from a German E-Boat. There is a second area of wreckage at 50 36.43N; 02 25.85W. The wreckage on both sites is very scattered due to dispersal by explosives. (Also LARN) … Read Article

HARTBURN

Merchant Steamship [39M] – Captain A. N. Shelton. Cargo MILITARY (Stores) (950 tons), Vehicles & Fodder. Detail in Dive Dorset: 203 P151: GPS; 50 30.74N; 02 06.42W. & LARN. Torpedoed by German Submarine, UC-62 amidships. Three crew missing but the remainder picked up by by the Italian S.S. ANTONIO, transferred to Patrol Ships and landed … Read Article

GUYENNE

Times: Friday, January 16, 1885, Issue 31345 – “Intelligence from Kimmeridge, telegraphed from Corfe castle reports that the Guyenne, French steamer, which struck on the Kimmeridge Ledges on Wednesday, has got off and proceeded to Weymouth assisted by tugs. Damage slight; had jettisoned part of the cargo to get off.” Ship Incident