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

Event and Historical Information:
The DUKE OF BEAUFORT was a originally built as 109nt brigantine in 1787 at Chepstow. At time of loss, technical and configuration specifications are given as 69ft length x 20ft breadth x 10ft 7.5in depth; rigged as a snow with trysail mast (since 1791). In the snow's Chepstow registry, the owners are noted as Warren Jane and Lawrence Crowdson, both merchants of Chepstow; John Hodgson, mariner, of Westbury, Glos.; Thomas Sunderland, merchant of Ulverstone; Joseph Goode, merchant of Baycliff, Lancs; and Alice Austin, widow of Drogheda. The vessel was lost in St Tudwall's Road in January 1794, with all hands.

Sources include:
Farr, G, 1954, Chepstow Ships, pg45-6
Larn and Larn Shipwreck Database 2002
Port of Chepstow Shipping Register 1786-1823, Gwent Archives D1847/11, 10 in 1791

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, June 2010.