This record consists of a documentary reference to a shipping casualty which has been assigned to the maritime named location BREAKSEA POINT 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 schooner built and registered at Bristol in December 1828. Technical and configuration specifications are given as 1 deck with raised quarter deck, 2 masts, 64ft 10in length x 19ft 1.5in breadth x 11ft 3in depth; schooner rigged with a running bowsprit, square sterned, carvel built with a female bust as a figurehead. The original owners were John Wesley Hall, merchant of Bristol (20 shares), James Hall, merchant of Bristol (8 shares) and Henry Tudor Parfitt, mariner and master (22 shares). In January 1829, Richard Power, master mariner of Bristol became the MARY's master after acquiring 8 shares. The MARY was one of six vessels which ran ashore at Breaksea Point during a severe gale during the night of 14-15 January 1836. The report printed in Lloyds List on 19 January 1836 noted that the MARY became a wreck, although a great part of the cargo was saved. The other five vessels got off and proceeded on their voyages.
Sources include:
Larn and Larn Shipwreck Database 2002
Lloyds List, 19 January 1836, issue number 7126
Port of Bristol Shipping Register 1827 - 1830, folio 91, Bristol Record Office 37908/1/3
