This record consists of a documentary reference to a shipping casualty which has been assigned to the maritime named location CARDIFF AND PENARTH ROADS pending more information which may allow a more precise location for the loss to be assigned.
Event and Historical Information:
The BACCHUS was a wooden trow built at Tewkesbury in 1830. The trow was appears on the Port of Bristol Shipping Register from at least 1853 onwards. In 1863 (re-registered 4 in 1863), technical and configuration specifications are given as 29.30gt; 62.2ft length x 14.9ft breadth x 4.8ft depth; fore and aft deck with open midships,1 mast, rigging trow, stern square, built carvel, frawework wood. At time of loss on 2 August 1879, the vessel was owned by William Lloyd of Bristol, boatbuilder. The trow was carying a cargo of coal from Cardiff to its home port when it was caught in a north-easterly gale and foundered in the Penarth Roads.
Sources include:
Board of Trade Wreck Return 1879 Appendix Parts I-IV pg 115 (181)
Larn and Larn shipwreck Database 2002
Port of Bristol Shipping Register 1860 - 1868, Bristol Record Office 37908/1/11, Folio 71
