Detail and pictures in LePard: pages 98 & 99. NIL. See Times DCC: 19/09/1907; Steamer ashore near Portland Bill. On Friday morning in an extraordinarily dense fog the large 5,000 ton steamer PATROCLUS of the Ocean Steamship Company, Liverpool (Messrs A Holt & Sons) struck an the Sharpots (Sharp Pits), half a mile north of … Read Article
Steam Yacht – [24M] (LARN, VLI.) – 17 miles SW Portland Bill.
OSPREY [10/07/1866]- Steamship – (LARN) – Off Portland. Note: “Vessel foundered early in the morning after being in collision with HMS AMAZON of 1040 tons, a wooden screw sloop armed with 4 guns, on passage from Portsmouth to Halifax, Nova Scotia. THE OSPREY carried seven passengers and the wife of Captain Burtridge, his son and … Read Article
Times: Wednesday, June 3, 1908, Issue 38663 – Weymouth, June 2: Spanish steamer Orozco, Huelva for Gothenburg, iron ore, stranded on Chesil Beach west of Langton Herring Coastguard Station. Every prospect of the vessel floating to-night. Sea smooth. Ship Incident
French Steamship – Captain John Pierre. Cargo COAL. (LARN) Attacked and sunk. Probably off Portland? Refs. LCWLR: WW1, p190; Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p21 & Lloyd’s Register: 1917-18 No. 36(O).
Times: Thursday, June 9, 1910, Issue 39294 – “During the fog in the Channel early this morning the German steamer Okahandja went ashore off Blacknor Fort, Portland, while bound from Cartagena to Stettin with ore. She is owned by Mr. Emil Retzlaff, and is a vessel of 3,429 tons built in 1895, and valued … Read Article
Swedish Steamship – (LARN, VLI) – Sunk off St Alban’s Head after a collision with S.S. LADY PLYMOUTH. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1918 Pt. II(2) p39.
Norwegian Steamship [55M] – Captain H. Andersen. Cargo COAL. (See Clarke: GPS 50 23.53N; 02 53.74W) This ship was attacked by gunfire from German Submarine UB-33, more details from Lyme Bay Deep Divers. See also BORGA. Refs. LARN South Devon 1918; LCWLR: WW1, p210: Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses WW1: p94 & MOD(N) … Read Article
Norwegian Steam Collier [42M] – (Clarke: GPS; 50 24.45N; 03 24.63W) Torpedoed by German Submarine UB-33, Oberleutnant F. Gregor. All the crew were saved by the Tug DENCODE and landed at Brixham. Bell recovered 1992. Coal salvaged by barge GENMAR in 1986. Refs. LARN South Devon 1918; British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats: WW1, p59; … Read Article
Paddle Steamer [40M] (Clarke: GPS; 50 25.00N; 01 55.00W) NIL.