This record comprises a documentary reference to a shipping casualty which has been assigned to the maritime named location DULAS ISLAND pending more information which may allow a more precise location for the loss to be assigned.
Event and Historical Information:
The GIPSY KING was a 217nt wooden schooner. At the time of loss, 17 October 1869, the vessel was sailing from Liverpool to Glasgow with a general cargo, when it was stranded on Dulas Rocks, Anglesey, in a north-easterly force 9 gale. Nine crew member lives were lost.
Sources include:
Board of Trade Wreck Return 1869 pg 7(785)
Larn and Larn Shipwreck Database 2002
