Deeper Dorset

LICENCE TO KILL

British Sloop, sank having caught fire. – Dive Dorset: 210 p154: GPS; 50 34.40N; 02.03.83W – 1 mile outside Chapman’s Pool.

KING OF PRUSSIA

Sloop – (LARN) Captain Long. Kimmeridge Ledge. Refs. Kentish Post & Canterbury News Letter 16/01/1753 & Lloyds List: No. 1786: 16/01/1753.

IMPERATRICE

Sloop – Captain J. Roberts. Studland Ledge, Old Harry Point. LARN, VLI. Ref. BOT: 1877 Appx. Pts. I-IV p108(308).

GEORGE

Times: Thursday, November 5, 1829, Issue 14063 – Manby Apparatus used on the Sloop ‘George’.

FRIENDSHIP

Sloop – Captain J. Pope. Stranded near Old Harry Point. LARN, VLI. Ref. BOT: Wk. Rtn. 1877 Appx. I-IV p109(309).

FRIENDS

Sloop – (LARN) Captain Thomas Collingwood. – Weymouth. Ref. Sh. Merc: 10/01/1786.

Sloop armed with two cannon (London to Exeter) – (LARN) – Near Bridport Harbour. The report says “that FOX a schooner? with a smack laden with Deals, from London to Bridport, were driven ashore, the former went to pieces and the smack will not be got off”. The smack was obviously the HENRIETTA and both … Read Article

EBENEZER

EBENEZER [23/11/1824] – The 80-100 ton EBENEZER, carrying government stores from Plymouth to Portsmouth became quite famous. Whether intent or by luck the ship ended up at the top of the Chesil Beach, when, after repairs, it came time to re-launch her it proved easier to to manhandle down the shingle on the opposite side. … Read Article

DUCHESS OF YORK

Sloop – Captain W. Adams. (LARN, VLI.) – Portland Bill. Try Dor. Mag: No.48, p15.

DOVE

Sloop – (LARN) – Captain Peter Bussell. Chesil Beach. Victim of the 1838 Gale. Note: The DOVE had previously been captured by a French Privateer in February 1806 and Captain Bussell imprisoned. Diary of Peter Bussell 1806 – 1814, published London, 1931.