Archaeological remains associated with the loss of this vessel are not confirmed as present at this location, but may be in the vicinity.
Event and Historical Information:
The CAERHUN was a wooden smack (or cutter - sources differ) built in 1819 at Caerhun, Caernarvonshire. Technical and configuration specifications are given as 19.93gt; 39.3ft length x 13.85ft breadth x 6.83ft depth in hold; 1 deck, 1 mast; rigging smack; stern square; build carvel; framework wood; official number 16401. At time of loss on 7 October 1889, the vessel was owned by Griffith Davies of Llanegan, Caernarfon (also the master). The smack was caught at moorings at Port Ysgaden by a west-northwesterly force 11 gale, broke free and stranded ashore (at Porthecadau according to Caernarvon Shipping Register Entry, 3 in 1876) .
Sources include:
Board of Trade Wreck Return 1889 Appendix C Table 1 pg119 (631)
Larn and Larn Shipwreck Database 2002
Port of Caernarfon Shipping Register 1874-1893, Gwynedd Archive Service XSR/19, folio 33
Wynne-Jones, I, 2001, Shipwrecks of North Wales, 4ed, pg34 and 153
