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

Event and Historical Information:
The PETER VARKEVISSER was a 69nt wooden sloop built in 1875. At time of loss on 13 January 1896, the vessel was owned by F Jones of Milford Haven and under the command of J Croker. It was carrying roofing slates from Porthmadog to Cardiff, when it was caught by a east-southeasterly force 10 gale and foundered in St Tudwall's Roads. The site was a focus of a marine geophysical survey as part of the Cadw-funded Welsh Coal and Slate Wrecks Project by Wessex Archaeology in April-May 2010.

Sources include:
Board of Trade Wreck Return 1895 Appendix C Table 1 pg111 (633)
Larn and Larn Shipwreck Database 2002

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, June 2012.