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

Event and Historical Information:
The MARY was a wooden sloop built at Cardigan in 1791. Technical and configuration specifications are given as 23 50/94ths ton burthen; 1 deck, 1 mast, length 38ft 6in, breadth taken above the main wales 12ft 8in, depth in hold 5ft 9in; sloop rigged with a standing bowsprit, square stern, carvel built. At time of loss, the vessel was owned by David Morgan of Dyffrien Blaenporth, mariner (16 shares); Mathias Morgan of Dyffrien Blaenporth, farmer (32 shares); Henry Morgan of Dyffrien Blaenporth, farmer (16 shares). The sloop's Port of Cardigan shipping register entry (54 in 1826) was closed with the annotation '10 Sept 1827 cancelled the above Registry in consequence of the vessel having been lost at Fishguard.' (Note: loss location take to be most likely Goodwick Sands?)

Sources include:
Port of Cardigan Shipping Register 1826-1829, Pembrokeshire Archives T/Ship/1/2, folio 42

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, June 2015.