Steamship – Captain W. G. M. Christian. Cargo, Tea & Jute. (Detail in LARN) – Torpedoed by German Submarine UB-58, 22 miles S of Portland Bill. The crew abandoned ship and a tug tried to tow the ship. However another torpedo sunk her. Refs. British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats: WW1, p41; British Vessels Lost … Read Article
Steamship [39M] – Captain Furlong. Cargo COAL. (Clarke: GPS; 50 28.85N; 03 11.44W) Torpedoed by German Submarine UB-40 Oberleutnant Howaldt. (LARN South Devon 1917) Refs. PRO: Kew Adm. 137/2963; Lloyd’s Register: WW1 No. 1193; Dive South Cornwall: p53 & British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW1 p6.
Steamship – Cargo Ammunition. [61M] – (Clarke: GPS; 50 19.069N; 03 03.47.5W) – Torpedoed by German Submarine UB-48. The crew were picked up by a patrol vessel and landed at Weymouth. Refs. LARN South Devon 1917; Lloyd’s Register: 1915-16 No9. 957(C); LCWLR: WW1, p107; British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW1, p38 & British Merchant Ships … Read Article
Steamship – [48M] Captain Kerien. (LARN) & (Clarke: GPS; 50 29.11N; 02 58.97W) – Refs. Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p16; LCWLR: WW1, p151 & Lloyd’s Register: 1916-17 No.771(C). Chateau Yquem SS was on passage from Dunkirk to Barry in ballast, when torpedoed by UB-40 on the 30th June 1917.
Russian cargo ship bound for Odessa, ran aground East of St Alban’s Head. See LePard: pages 40 & 41. NIL. CERERA Times: Tuesday, April 16, 1907, Issue 38308 – Russian steamship Cerera, Riga for Odessa, has gone ashore one mile east of St Alban’s Head. Tug Queen, and Monarch steamship in attendance. 11ft of water … Read Article
Times: Thursday, December 12, 1912, Issue 40080 – “A steamer disappeared after a collision with the battleship Centurion off Portland Bill. A port bow light found on the Centurion is marked ‘J. H. Peters and Bey, Hamburg 1668’. An official inquiry will be held in due course.”
Coaster [37M] Off Anvil Point. (Clarke: GPS; 50 34.83N; 01 56.10W) Cargo COAL. Crew drowned. The bell with the old name was recovered. Dictionary of Disaster at Sea: p132. & Lloyd’s Casualty Returns: 1926 No.6872(N).
Steam Driven Collier [50M] – (Detail in Dive Dorset: 36 p47 & Clarke: GPS; 50 43.12N; 02 48.87W. (Good details also in LARN) – Scuttled by German Submarine UC-61, 9 miles SW Portland Bill. Cargo COAL. Usual story except here the Captain G. Wright attempted an escape. His vessel was hit 12 times killing two … Read Article
After the loss of the paddle steamer BOURNEMOUTH, her owners completed the season by chartering the PRINCESS HELENA and then the paddle steamer BRODICK CASTLE (2x2cyl. comp. 96 hp manufactured by W. King & Co. Glasgow). She went into service as a passenger vessel in 1887 and was the largest pleasure steamer on the South … Read Article
Times: Saturday, June 18, 1898, Issue 35546 – The Union Steamship Company’s liner Briton is briefly stranded on the Shambles. MI. Ship Incident