Deeper Dorset

ARDENTE

Five crew rescued by Weymouth Lifeboat, FRIERN WATCH – Photographs and some detail in LePard: pages 26 & 27. NIL.

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

APACHE

Ships bell Recovered builders plate Here are the bits on the “APACHE” from the Newspaper Library. At the PRO at Kew there may be a little more detail on the ship itself so I will have a look when I next get there. There should also be a list of the other fourteen who didn’t … Read Article

AMPHOTRITE

Fishing Vessel (Sail) – (LARN) – Sunk by Gunfire from a German Submarine, 24 miles off Portland. Refs. cited LCWLR: WW1, p73 & British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW1, p112.

ALGARVE

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

AILSA CRAIG

Binnacle light from Ailsa Craig Armed British Steamship [33M] – Captain R. Milliken. Cargo Coal. (Details in Dive Dorset: 40 p50) & (Clarke: GPS; 50 33.66N; 02 47.54W) Details also in LARN. Sunk (Torpedoed) by German submarine UB-80, off Portland Bill. Sold to Mr E. Nicklin. LCWLR: WW1, p211.

ARFON HMT

Admiralty Armed Trawler No. 134 hired as a Minesweeper in 1914. Hit mine and sank drowning one officer and nine naval ratings. – (LARN) Lost off St Alban’s Head. ADM.APV.1919 & SRN: Vol. 2, p28. Hit mine when she was sweeping with the trawler VERA GRACE. Ref. ADM.APV 1919 & SRN Vol. 2 p28. MINUTES … Read Article

AVANTI

Steamship – Captain T. Davies. Cargo IRON Ore. (Detail in LARN) – Torpedoed by German Submarine UB-59, 4 miles SE by E St Alban’s Head. See also AVANTI. Refs. British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW1, p79; British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats: WW1, p146; LCWLR: WW1, p199; PRO: Kew Adm. 137/2963 & Lloyd’s Register: 1917-18 No. … Read Article

ADA

Brigantine – Captain G. Joiner. Cargo, Manure. (LARN) – Sunk by gunfire from a German Submarine, 8 miles S Anvil Point. Refs. British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW1 p32; LCWLR: WW1, p92; Lloyd’s Register: 1915-16 No. 55(A)