“GIRDLENESS Steamer arrived at Portland on Monday evening assisted by steamer RUTHLIN of Glasgow after collision with SAPPHIRE of and from London for New York about 12 miles W. of Portland. GIRDLENESS had to be beached her main compartment being cut clean through and her fore compartment full of water. The captain has arranged with … Read Article
Steamship [33M] – Captain J. Sapp. Cargo COAL. (Detail in LARN) – Sunk (Torpedoed) by German Submarine UB-104, off Abbotsbury, 15 miles S of Portland Bill. Clarke: GPS: 50 35.86N; 02 53.06W) Dictionary of Disaster at Sea: Vol. 1 p271; LCWLR: British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats: WW1, p22; Burnet: p62 & Lloyd’s Register: 1918-9 … Read Article
A 1,347 ton Hartlepool Steamship bound from Huelva to Rotterdam. [14M] – (Dive Dorset: 128 p105: GPS; 50 32.79N, 02 27.10W) – Hit the rocks between Tar Rocks & Blacknor Point. Crew and two passengers were saved. (Details in LARN) Cargo IRON (Pyrites). (LePard: pages 94 & 95) Refs. (Weymouth Library Photo L.910.4.GE2 negative No.38); … Read Article
Norwegian Steamship [32M] – Captain T. L. Storaas. Cargo COAL. (Clarke: GPS; 50 30.10N; 03 15.29W) Torpedoed and sunk by German Submarine UB-40, Oberleutnant Howaldt. Captain and donkeyman drowned but 14 were saved and landed at Brixham. Refs. Lloyd’s Register: 1915-16 No. 166(G); British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats: WW1, p237; British Vessels Lost at … Read Article
Norwegian Steamship – Captain Z. Svenson. [55] Clarke: p46: GPS; 50 16.58N; 03 28.44W) Torpedoed by German Submarine. Torpedoed and sunk by German Submarine UC-65. Refs. LARN South Devon 1917; Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p84; Lloyd’s Register: 1915-16 No. 59(G)(sepp) & LCWLR: WW1, p166.
Italian Steamship [37M] – Cargo COAL. (LARN) Torpedoed and sunk by German Submarine UB-40. 11 miles SE by S Anvil Point. (Clarke: GPS; 50 26.41N; 01 48.10W). LARN; Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p36 & Lloyd’s Register: 1918-19 (G)
Captain E. R. Pape. General Cargo: Cargo CEMENT & Cloth. Armed Steamship typical of many WWI ships off the Dorset and Devon coast [17M] – (Clarke: GPS; 50 33.289N; 03 26.393W) – Hit Mine laid by German Submarine UC-17. With 59 passengers and crew aboard. They were rescued by Teignmouth lifeboat, a tug and a … Read Article
Norwegian Steamship [35M] – Captain O. Lehman. (Dive Dorset: 107 – 50 32 02N; 02 33.06W) Brought by Mr E. Nicklin. (Also LARN). Clarke: gives the position as 50 31.81N; 02 333.44W – Sunk (Torpedoed) by German Submarine UB-17. LCWLR: WW1, p214; Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p83; Lloyds Confidential List of … Read Article
Steamship [60M] – Captain Ditmarsen. Cargo COAL. (LARN) & (Clarke: GPS; 50 13.602N; 02 27.64W) Torpedoed and sunk 12 miles SSW of Anvil Point by German Submarine UB-54. Refs. Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p83; LCWLR: WW1, p166 & Lloyd’s Register: 1915-16 No. 686(F). Bell recovered from the wreck Wheel boss from … Read Article
German Steam Collier [48M] – Detail in Dive Dorset: 123, p102 & Clarke: GPS; 50 28.30N; 02 27.40W – (LARN) Captain J. Haye. Cargo COAL. Vessel foundered and lost following a collision with the barque HONOR of Norway. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1889 Appx. C Table 1 p141(708). See also Fransiska Times Times: Tuesday, February … Read Article