Archaeological remains associated with the loss of this vessel are not confirmed as present at this location, but may be in the vicinity.
Event and Historical Information:
The NOTRE-DAME-DE-LOURDES was a 74nt wooden ketch, built in 1885 and registered in Bayonne, France. At the time of loss, 14 April 1910, the vessel was sailing from Bayonne to Llanelly, with a cargo of pit wood. The NOTRE-DAME-DE-LOURDES was stranded at Burry Holm Sands, Worms Head, Glamorgan, with no lives lost.
Sources include:
Board of Trade Wreck Return 1910 Appendix C Table 1, p.115 (163)
Edmunds, G. 1979, The Gower Coast, p.152
'French Ketch Wrecked at Gower', The Cambrian, 22 April 1910, p.8
Larn and Larn Shipwreck Database 2002
Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, June 2011.