This record comprises a documentary reference to a shipping casualty which has been assigned to the maritime named location WEST HOYLE BANK 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 brigantine belonging to the port of Caernarfon. It grounded on the West Hoyle Bank on 26 April 1792 and subsequently foundered. Only the captain was saved.
Sources include:
Wynne-Jones, I, 2001, Shipwrecks of North Wales, 4 ed, p120
