Site Record

This record consists of a documentary reference to a shipping casualty which has been assigned to the maritime named location BRISTOL CHANNEL pending more information which may allow a more precise location for the loss to be assigned.

Event and Historical Information:
The RESOLUTE was a schooner which set off in company of the schooner HOPE from Porthmadog with cargo of slate on 9 March 1891. The two schooners were joined by another, the ELIZA HANNAH, which had been sheltering in the St Tudwalls roadstead. As the three rounded into the Bristol Channel they were caught in a hurricane. The HOPE and ELIZA Hannah's last sighting of the RESOLUTE was that it had been shortening sail in preparation to try and ride out the storm.

Sources include:
Morgan, D W, 1948, Brief Glory: A Story of a Quest, pg242

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, September 2008.