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 KING was a wooden smack. The report printed in Lloyds List on 27 September 1836 noted that it had missed stays in Jack Sound and gone ashore or or around the 24 September 1836. The crew had been saved..

Sources include:
Larn and Larn Shipwreck Database 2002
Lloyds List, 27 September 1836, issue number 7198

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, December 2010.