This record comprises a documentary reference to a shipping casualty which has been assigned to the maritime named location OFF THE MUMBLES pending more information which may allow a more precise location for the loss to be assigned.
Event and Historical Information:
In the compilation of a list of shipping losses in support of a campaign to build a pier at Newton, William Weston Young includes a brief reference to the MARY, on passage from Demerara to Bristol, which was lost on 3 August 1810. Seven lives were saved.
Sources include:
William Weston Young papers: lists of vessels saved and lost at Newton and the Neighbourhood, West Glamorgan Archive Service D/D XHF 16
