SS NOR Norwegian Schooner-rigged Steamer [6 to 12M] – (Detail and photograph in Dive Dorset: 75 p74) – SY 665 775 (Shore dive, Chesil Beach. Details in (LARN) & (LePard: pages 122 & 123) Weymouth Library Photo. L.910.4. M01 Neg. No.38. Rocket Apparatus used to rescue nineteen crew. See also Times DCC: 18/01/1887: Transcription K … Read Article
Steamship – Captain G. M. Lewis. Cargo COAL. (LARN) – Shambles Bank. Sank following a collision with HMS SURPRISE. Check BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1899 Appx. C Table 1 p151. & Lloyd’s Register: 1896-7 No. 164(N).
Steamship – Captain J. Jarratt (LARN) Cargo GRANITE (Chips). Portland Bill. Refs. Southern Times: 14/03/1891; Lloyd’s Casualty Returns: 1891 p5(a) & Lloyd’s Register: 1888-9 No. 101(N)
2,571 Ton British Merchant Steamer carrying metal ore. [10M] – Dive Dorset: 126 p104: GPS; 50 32.20N; 02 27.30W, Mutton Cove, Portland. Refs. DCC: 26/03/1912; LARN & LePard: pages 86 & 87. See Times  The 2,571 ton British merchant steamship was built in Jarrow in 1890. En route from Sajunt in Eastern Spain to … Read Article
Spanish Steamer [6 to 12M] – Captain M. Zarragoza. General Cargo. (LARN) (Detail and photograph in Dive Dorset: 212 p154) – 50 34.56N; 02 03.35W. (Photograph and detail in LePard pages 42 & 43) Heading for Portland stuck St Alban’s Head. Silver & Manganese Ores? Crew saved and taken to Swanage. Weymouth Library Photograph L.910.4 … Read Article
Moidart on the slipway for repair after a previous accident Armed Merchant Steamship [40M] – Captain H. Arthurson. Cargo COAL & Cargo STEEL (Bar). (Dive Dorset: 42 p50. – 50 34.02N; 02 47.22W) & (Clarke: 50 34.03N; 02 47.29W) (Considerable detail also in LARN) – Sunk (Torpedoed) by German Submarine UC-77, 7 miles SE of … Read Article
Steam Powered Coal Barge – Drifted on to rocks and broke up on rocks at Osmington Mills. (LePard: p24) NIL.
Times: Tuesday, February 26, 1889, Issue 32632 – Lloyd’s Agent at Weymouth telegraphed that the Fransiska,[sic] German steamer, of Kiel, from Cardiff for Flushing, coal laden, came into collision on Sunday, about 11. 30 p.m., with the Norwegian barque Honor, of Arendal, from Antwerp for Brazil, about 19 miles south of Portland. The Franziska was … Read Article
Picture of near identical sister ship Dunsley I have searched for years for a picture of Miniota, if anyone can help or point me in the right direction that would be much appreciated. Steamship [65M] – (Divers Guide; Weymouth & Portland: p33 JA) & (LARN) – Sunk by German Submarine U-19, 13 miles SW of … Read Article
Early iron screwed Norwegian steamship [43M] – Captain C. Christiansen. (Detail in Dive Dorset: 50 p53: GPS; 50 29.60N; 02 45.31W) (Clarke: has GPS; 50 29.61N; 02 58.34W). (Minimal detail in LARN) – Scuttled (or possibly torpedoed) by a German Submarine, 15 miles WNW of Portland Bill. Check Allied, Neutral & Central Merchant Shipping Losses … Read Article