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

Event and Historical Information:
The SARAH LLOYD was a 34ton wooden sloop built at Llandudno in 1863. Sources differ as the sloop's owner and date of loss. One source suggests the sloop was built for the last leaseholder of the Llandudno copper mines, captain David Lloyd, and named after his wife (source Wynne-Jones). Another source gives the owner and captain O Jones, Bryn Hyfryd, Anglesey (source Larn). Both sources agree that the sloop was lost at Aberdaron after breaking free from moorings and driving ashore in a southwesterly gale force 8. However, one source gives the date of loss as 1874 (source Wynne-Jones), the other 14 August 1903 (source Larn).

Sources include:
Board of Trade Wreck Return 1903 Appendix C Table 1 pg121 (625)
Larn and Larn Shipwreck Database 2002
Wynne-Jones, I, 2001, Shipwrecks of North Wales, 4 ed, pg30

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, February 2018.