This record comprises a documentary reference to a shipping casualty which has been assigned to the maritime named location DEE ESTUARY pending more information which may allow a more precise location for the loss to be assigned.

Event and Historical Information:
The PEGGY was a wooden sailing vessel on passage from St Petersburg to Chester. The report printed in Lloyds List on 14 September 1790 noted the master's name as Shaw and that the vessel had sunk on 9 September in the Chester river in a hard gale.

Sources include:
Larn and Larn Shipwreck Database 2002
Lloyds List, 14 September 1790, issue number 2229

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, February 2010.