This record comprises a documentary reference to a shipping casualty which has been assigned to the maritime named location JACK SOUND pending more information which may allow a more precise location for the loss to be assigned.
Event and Historical Information:
The JOHN was a wooden sailing vessel belonging to the port of Wicklow. The report printed in Lloyds List on 13 May 1831 noted the master's name as Watkins and that the vessel had been wrecked in Jack Sound on the morning of 10 May 1831. The crew and some of the materials had been saved
Sources include:
Larn and Larn Shipwreck Database 2002
Lloyds List, 13 May 1831, issue number 6637
