Deeper Dorset

HMS EAGLE

Gunboat – Studland Bay. LARN, VLI. Ref cited Lloyds List: No. 3054: 01/02/1799.

HMS DELIGHT 1,375 ton Destroyer H38 [60M] – (LARN, 1914? & 1939?) (Clarke: p58 1940) – Bombed and sunk off Portland by German Aircraft. 6 crew died. (GPS: 50 15.05N, 02 42 58W – Clarke: & Trim: 1940) – 20.5 miles SSE Portland Bill. Deeper Dorset has acquired the transcript of the hearing into her … Read Article

CORMORANT

32 gun Man of War ran aground on the Shambles Ref. Trim: 1762, VLI. NIL.

CONSTITUTION

Times: Thursday, February 6, 1879, Issue 29484 – Letter to the Editor: ‘A Dangerous Coast.’ Mentions stranding of the American Frigate, Constitution; Danish Barque Anne Marguerite (Swanage Bay) Also need for lighthouses etc, etc

COMPTE DE MAUREPAS

French 12 Gun Man of War COMPTE DE MAUREPAS. Sank following a battle with 5th Rate, 32 gun, HMS SOUTHAMPTON – Portland. Ref. Lloyds List: No. 1185: 01/08/1780. Log from HMS Southampton which describes the sinking of Compte Du Maurepas available to view at the National Archives.

HMS CLYDE

Requisitioned Trawler, Patrol Mine Sweeper [40M] – (Clarke: GPS; 50 32.06N; 02 56.36W) Reason for sinking not recorded. NIL.

CHASSEUR 5

Concise details of this rescue can be found in Farr: p 100.

CHASSEUR No. 6

CHASSEUR No. 6 or 7 [12/10/1940] – French Anti Submarine Warship [40M] – Swanage. (Clarke: GPS; 50 25.46N; 02 04.84W) Sunk by German Naval Gunfire. Possibly No. 6, see note from Dive Dorset: 209. NIL. See CARENTAN Chasseur No.? – 1943 Following the confusion in LARN, Dive Dorset Wk. No. 209, p153 seems to have … Read Article

CARENTAN

Built in 1940 as a French submarine chaser. (Very interesting story. More Swanage than Portland/Weymouth! (Clarke: GPS; 50 34.96N; 01 56.16W) & (LARN) See note, there is confusion with the CHASSEUR 5 details can be found in Farr: p100. HMS Carentan – 1943 LARN (Spelt CARANTAN) Built in 1940 as a French submarine chaser, she … Read Article

HMS BUCCANEER

HMS BUCCANEER. Armed Admiralty Tug [43M] – Dive Dorset: 63 p59: GPS; 50 29.37N; 02 41.70W & (LARN) – While towing a target for gunnery practice by a new destroyer HMS ST JAMES a 4.5 inch shell hit the HMS BUCCANEER. Photograph of the crew c.1942. Alexander Rose the Chief Petty Officer holding the … Read Article