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 WILLIAM NEILSON was a wooden sailing vessel which foundered in the approaches to the Mersey on 8 October 1832.
Sources include:
Wynne-Jones, I, 2001, Shipwrecks of North Wales, 4 ed, p120
