Dewey

DEWEY was an Admiralty hired drifter (No K1297), built in 1908 of 84 grt, Lowestoft registered as LT.59. 

Described as a Steam screw Ketch, 1st class, 10 men, herring nets.

Armed with a 1 x 6 pdr, DEWEY was in service since November 1914 as a patrol boat until sunk on August 12, 1917 in a collision, off the ROYAL SOVEREIGN LIGHTVESSEL. There were 11 casualties.

View out of the bow

                                                                   

                                                           Video of the Dewey

Catalogue Reference: This file is titled “Collision between Armed Drifter DEWEY and SS GLENIFER” and dates to August 1917.

			ASKEW, JOHN JOSEPH, seaman, (no. 6893A), Royal Naval Reserve, Memorial: Plymouth Naval Memorial
			BURWOOD, FREDERICK HENRY, Skipper, Royal Naval Reserve, Son of William Henry and Alice Burwood, of Lowestoft; husband of Ivy Harriet Burwood, of 13, Melbourne Rd., Lowestoft, Suffolk, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
			CHURCH, CHARLES GEORGE, Engineman, (no. 1507ES), Royal Naval Reserve, Son of William and Mary Ann Church, of Church Farm, Oulton Rd., Lowestoft, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
			CLOTHIER, FREDERICK CHARLES, Deckhand, (no. 16460DA), Royal Naval Reserve, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
			DIVERS, PETER MCNAIR, Engineman, (no. 4332ES), Royal Naval Reserve, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial
			HALL, ROBERT, Second Hand, (no. 775SA), Royal Naval Reserve, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
			HILL, HENRY, Trimmer, Royal Naval Reserve, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
			SIMPSON, EDWARD SIRE, Deckhand, (no. 10781DA), Royal Naval Reserve, Son of Mark and Elizabeth Simpson, of Lowestoft; husband of Lucy Simpson, of 3, Sudbury Cottages, Bevan St., Lowestoft, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
			WARDROPPER, WILLIAM, Deckhand, (no. 14890DA), Royal Naval Reserve, Son of William and Agnes Wardropper, of 103, Fort St., South Shields, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
			WILLIAMSON, ROBERT, Signalman, (no. Tyneside/Z/48), Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Son of John Charles and Margaret Williamson, of 30, Diamond Row, Walker-on-Tyne, Northumberland. Born at South Shields, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
			WRIGHT, ALBERT WILLIAM, Deckhand, (no. 14600DA), Royal Naval Reserve, Son of Arthur Henry and Agnes Ellen Wright, of 197, High St., Maldon, Essex, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial

Blobby

 

Video of Blobby 

It looks like a blob on the chart!! Ship carrying a cargo of granite. A few large anchors and slightly smaller ones. Some iron work and wooden ship timbers under all the granite. 

Lots of broken pottery, some blue transferware but nothing to really give a good date.* 

Quite a few ships sank on their way up from the Channel Islands carrying stone from the various quarries to build London, and without a really good clue, It's impossible to tie this particular pile to any particular ship.

Some guesses are, Anne Clarke1891, Banshee 1895, Renown 1891. The more you look though, the more you find!

All finds reported to ROW

*Upon closer inspection, the bottle indeed had a mark on it, providing a valuable clue that dates the wreck to somewhere between 1817 and 1834. The press cutting is from 1829. However, I have been unable to uncover any additional information about this particular brig. More clues are definitely needed!

** I think Trinty house marked this wreck a few weeks later and the position given puts It further West so possibly one of our other 'Unknown' wrecks closer to Beachy Head and not Blobby.

Possibility. 1829

H Kaines

                                                     

                                                      

  

Granite

Blocks 1906

 Blocks by the Medea...

Not very interesting, just blocks!!

Blocks

That's about as good as it gets!

Seaford Bay Box

 Box in the bay

HMS Jasper

 

1824 Built

1824 sailed for Milford

1824 Starts work Milford

Speed trials

Earl of Clare 1825 passenger

sailings passengers 1826

1826

1826

fire 1836

Taken over by Navy 1837

1848 cancellation of Milford Service

Used as a tug between 1848 & 1854

Hammocks to Liverpool from Plymouth  Feb 1854

Brings hammocks back, seems to be stationed at Plymouth Feb

Crawley takes over, waiting on a gun April Plymouth

Takes out posters advertising for men april 1854

Listed in the Baltic fleet

Jasper blows up

Inquiry on Victory1

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Brighton Inquiry 1

2

3

New boat, (Mr hall engineer on jasper)

 

Baltic fleet

Baltic Fleet

Deck Prism-skylight with Broad Arrow

Broad Arrow & 1844- year cast

Although there is no confirmation from the bell, we are fairly confident this is HMS Jasper due to its unusual engine, the presence of broad arrows, its armament with a cannon, and the area of its loss.

All finds have been reported to ROW

Jasper

Lewes Lass

 I thought we may have been able to locate the stone from the 'Lewes Lass' but after looking into it a bit further it seems it was wrecked onshore rather than the paper seems to suggest, just offshore.

The ship was broken up and used in the construction of two cottages, 1&2 Lewes Lass Cottages, Ninfield Rd, Sidley. The figurehead was perched up on the roof, sadly no longer.

Not sure if the cottages are there any longer but it seems Bexhill Museum has a picture of them.

Nyon