The character, exact location, and extent of archaeological remains associated with the loss of this vessel is presently unknown.
Event and Historical Information:
The MARY JANE LEWIS was a wooden sailing vessel built at Jacob's Pill, Monkton Pembroke in 1899 (Official No. 112454). The vessel had a registered tonnage of 26 (net) and 38 (gross). It is recorded (Mercantile Navy List, 1947) as being 57.3ft in length, 16.6ft width, 6.8ft depth, and carrying an auxiliary engine rated as 20hp. The final recorded owner of the vessel, within the Mercantile Navy List of 1947 was Thomas E. Eynon of Angle.
The fate of the vessel is somewhat unclear, although it appears to have become abandoned within the Hall Walk area of Angle Harbour in the late 1940s or early 1950s. RAF aerial photos from 1946 show a number of vessels seemingly hulked within Angle Harbour, one of which may be the MARY JANE LEWIS. The bell of the vessel and a section of keel have been incorporated into one of the houses adjacent to the Ridge.
Sources include:
Don Edson, Angle Resident, Personal Communication, September 2024.
Goddard, T, 1983, Pembrokeshire Shipwrecks, pg135
Mercantile Navy List, 1947, p. 730.
RCAHMW Aerial Photo Archive, 6075882: https://coflein.gov.uk/en/archive/6075882/
J. Whitewright, RCAHMW, October 2024.