Maritime record MWX1992 - Turenne

Year Built: 1907 Builder: Smiths Dock Co. Ltd. Where Built: North Shields Engine HP: 60 Boilers: 1 Propulsion: Screw driven, 3 cylinder triple expansion engine. Master: E Gournay Crew: 16 Date of Loss Qualifier: A Whilst generally believed to have become a total wreck, a Mr F J Barnes, a Portland quarry owner, bought the remains, the fish in the trawler having already been salvaged and taken to Billingsgate for sale. Despite having four large holes in her bottom and bumping badly, she was pulled off and refloated on 10-MAY, taken to Castletown Pier and broken up. (1) 11-FEB, Boulogne for fishing, in ballast, stranded off Blacknore point.
The Turenne was a French trawler which was wrecked at Clay Hope on Portland on the 12th February 1913. Her cargo of fish was quickly salvaged, but the vessel proved to be more difficult. Inspection showed that she had four holes in her hull and she was thought to be a total wreck.
A Portland quarry owner, Mr F. J. Barnes, had other ideas and bought the wreck for very little. He managed to get patches over the holes, drag her off and tow her round to Castletown Pier in Portland Harbour. Here she was finally broken up, making Mr. Barnes a considerable profit.(5)
(3) Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: ST 15.02.1913(R) LR.1912-13 No.1173(T) Weymouth Library, photo.L910.4.TU.1

Gross tonnage
Salvaged

<1> Larn, Richard, 1992, United Kingdom shipwreck index, Extracted 23 November 1992 (Index). SWX5030.

<2> 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.

<3> Board of Trade, 1914, Parliamentary papers 1914, Board of Trade Casualty Returns 1912-1913, p98(440) (Monograph). SWX5308.

<4> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 909 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> Le Pard, G F, 2005, Shipwrecks of the Dorset Coast (Monograph). SDO9637.

<6> Trim, P, 1985 about, Shipwrecks, Abbotsbury to Portland. (Monograph). SWX8061.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 892070 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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