Norwegian Steamship [16M] – Captain A. Andersen. Cargo COAL. (Dive Dorset: 124, 50 32.74N; 02 37.30W), (Divers Guide; Weymouth & Portland: Ed 5 p31 Wk. No. 29 -50 32.35N; 02 27.18W). Blacknor Point, Tar Rocks. (Clarke: GPS; 50 32.66N; 02 27.39W).
Norwegian Steamship [48M] – Captain J. A. Wilson. (Dive Dorset: 29 p43: GPS; 50 26.23N; 02 53.51W suggests this may be the BAMSE ). LARN, has good detail of the ship itself) – Sunk (Torpedoed) by German Submarine UB-112, off Portland Bill. Clarke: has it as Norwegian GPS; 50 26.25N; 02 53.54W and confirms that … Read Article
Steamship [53M] – Captain H. Rochling. Cargo PATENT Coal Bricks showing the Phoenix or the Crown of the Cardiff Co., See example in Portland Museum – Dive Dorset: 119 p100. & Clarke: GPS; 50 20.71N; 02 27.72W. (LARN) – Sank following a collision with S. S. THOR of Glasgow. The beautiful Dolphin compass binnacle was … Read Article
Glasgow Steamship – Captain David Kerr. General Cargo. (Interesting salvage information in LARN) – E end of Kimmeridge Ledges, St Alban’s Head. Note: Sale of Wreck, Mr Sydney Milledge & Son. Other references: Southern Times: 27/11/1880; Farr: p85 & Legg: p37.
Armed Steamship [42M] – Captain J. G. S. Doorley. (Detail in LARN) Torpedoed and sunk by German Submarine UB-40. 6 miles S by W of Anvil Point. (Clarke: GPS; 50. 29.46N; 01 54.96W) A total of 26 Europeans and 30 native crew members were lost. One passenger, a Pilot, survived. 26 crew were picked up … Read Article
Greek Steamship [62-70M] (Clarke: Detail but no marks) Sank after a collision with HMS KEITH.
Times: Wednesday, June 11, 1890, Issue 33035 – “Yesterday morning, the steamer Antelope of Weymouth, belonging to the Great Western Railway Company, went ashore on rocks at the Head of Roussel, Guernsey, during a dense fog. She was outward bound from Weymouth to the Channel Islands. By the afternoon she had been towed into the … Read Article
HMS AMAZON, 1,081 ton Naval Sloop [60M] – Collided with the 420 ton Steamship OSPRAY which sunk off Portland with the loss of 10 lives. The officer in charge of Sub. Lieut. Loveridge had ordered her helm put to starboard instead of port, and the vessels collided, the collier being cut in two and sinking … Read Article
Times: Wednesday, July 20, 1870, Issue 26807 – Prussian Mail Steamer Allemania seeks shelter from the French in Portland Roads.
British Armed Steamship [51M] – Captain H. N. Borroes. (Dive Dorset: 37 p48; GPS; 50 22.71N; 02 48.40W), (Clarke: GPS; 50 22.81N; 02 48.51W) & (LARN) – Torpedoed without warning by German Submarine UB-38, 15 miles WSW of Portland Bill. The ship sank very quickly, three crew were picked up by a patrol vessel. Deaths, … Read Article