This record comprises a documentary reference to a shipping casualty which has been assigned to the maritime named location GOODWICK SANDS pending more information which may allow a more precise location for the loss to be assigned.

Event and Historical Information:
The MARY was a wooden Smack built at Newquay in 1829. The vessel went ashore on Goodwick Sands during a northeasterly gale on 10th November 1872. At the time of loss the vessel's master was J. Morgan and its listed owner was also Morgan.

The MARY was registered at Cardigan: 31 44/94ths tons, length 51ft 2, breadth 13ft 10 at the main wales, and a depth in hold of 6ft 10. The vessel was carvel built with one deck and a square stern. It had no galleries or figurehead. It was rigged with a single mast and a running bowsprit.

Sources include:

Cardigan Shipping Register 1829/No. 21; 1836/No. 95 (Pembrokeshire Archives). 

Goddard, T, 1993, Pembrokeshire Shipwrecks, pg 42-3

Larn and Larn Shipwreck Database 2002

Lloyds Register of British and Foreign Shipping, 1 July 1872 - 30 June 13, number 394 in M

J. Whitewright, RCAHMW, November 2023.