MARY ANN
Schooner – Off Abbotsbury, Chesil Beach. The Plymouth Schooner was a victim of the 1838 Gale. She was on her way to Glasgow from Ipswich loaded with barley, five of her six crew were lost. See also LARN, VLI. Ref. Dor. Mag: 1975 No. 49 p23.
Vessel Type: Schooner
MARY
Schooner – Captain Gilbert. Cargo CEMENT (Bagged). (LARN, VLI.) – 12 miles WNW of Portland Bill. Check Ref. Southern Times: 12/11/1921.
MARIE JOSEPH
MARIE JOSEPH Schooner – Cargo COAL – East of Preston Coastguard Station. DCC:22/12/1881. Note: “Went ashore at the same place as the RAVENSWORTH sometime ago”? NLR? & Dorchester Telegram: 23/12/1888. See also Times “Shipping Casualties – During the heavy gale of Saturday the French smack ABONDANCE, Le Claires, from Rouen to Exeter, with a cargo … Read Article
MARIE ALIENE
WRECK OF A FRENCH SCHOONER. A stirring though sad episode In the uneventful life of this little village was the wreck early on Sunday morning of the French schooner Marie Aliene, of Nantes. The vessel, it seems, had been in collision late Saturday night with an unknown vessel off Portland, and with 8ft. of water … Read Article
MARIA
Schooner – Captain W. Lewis. Cargo COAL. (LARN) – Scuttled by German Submarine, 25 miles SW Portland Bill. Ref. British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW1, p42; LCWLR: WW1, p117 &Lloyd’s Register: 1916-17 No. 170(M).
MARGARET & ANN
Schooner – (LARN) – Chesil Beach with all six crew drowned. Note: Cargo SLATE (Roofing). Five bodies were recovered from the Portland Beach. Refs. DCC: 29/10/1835; Dorset Records Office: John Thomas Elliott’s Diary & Dor. Mag: No. 58, p24.
MADELAINE TRISTAN
Large three Masted Schooner MADELAINE TRISTAN – Captain Vallon. Cargo, Grain. Detail in Portland Museum & Weymouth Library L910.4.MA1-MA22. Also Photo L942.33.BU3. Chesil Cove. (Some detail in LARN, 1930) Rocket Apparatus. Good local story. Excellent pictures also in LePard: pages 116, 117, 118 & 119. Other refs. Burnett: p57; Southern Times: 12/09/1931. Portland Museum No. … Read Article
LUCINDA
Schooner [52M] – Captain J. F. Drouyn. Foundered. (LARN, VLI) – 14 miles WSW Portland Bill. Cargo METAL (Mixed). (Clarke: GPS: 50 25.93N; 02 48.67W) Dundee Evening Telegraph – Friday 31 July 1914
L R
French Schooner, “Captain Paris driven on shore on Portland Beach with the loss of one boy, cargo was saved.” Morning Post September 28, 1820, Issue 15455.
LORD DUFFUS
Schooner of Inverness bound from St Domingo for London – Captain A. Z. Speight. Cargo, Mahogany. (LARN & Farr: p45.) Note: The bodies of the six crew were placed in coffins and laid side by side in a small hut, previously used as Lloyd’s Signal Station. – Shag Cliff, Portland. Other refs. BOT: Wk. Rtn. … Read Article