Maritime record MDO19941 - Annie Harris

Vessel foundered and lost following collision withteh German SS Dresden in wind conditions S x E force 2

<1> Larn, R, and Larn, B, 1995, Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 1 : Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset Section 6, Dorset (AJ) Vol 1 (Monograph). SWX4541.

<2> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 9 (Monograph). SDO16406.

Lichfield Mercury - Friday, 24/7/1891: 'Collision in the Channel'. Precis; The North German Lloyd mail steamship Dresden, while on a voyage from Bremen to Baltimore collided with the brigantine Annie Harris, of Padstow, Captain T. Bincombe, 15 miles south of Portland. The crew except the captain and the mate, George Conch who were initially picked up by the Dresden, were drowned. The Dresden transferred the two survivors to a fishing boat. The survivors later claimed that the Dresden was at fault. More details in the report. Cargo: Ore (Burnt) Also Lloyd's Casualty Returns (Lloyd's Casualty Returns: 1891 p;9(d) & Lloyd's Register: 1890-1 No. 1844(A).

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