Archaeological remains associated with the loss of this vessel are not confirmed as present at this location, but may be in the vicinity.

Event and Historical Information:
The WAVE was a wooden schooner built in 1856 at Pownal Bay, Prince Edward Island, for the merchant James Reddin of Charlottetown. Technical and configuration specifications are given as 60gt; 63ft length x 19ft breadth x 9ft depth, 1 deck, 2 masts, schooner rigged; official number 39084. The schooner was sold and transferred to the port of Liverpool in the same year it was completed (249 in 1856). It transferred to the Port of Aberystwyth Shipping Register on 28 February 1857. At time of loss on 26 October 1859 as a result of the Royal Charter Gale, it was owned by John Hughes of Aberystwyth, master mariner. It was carrying a cargo of cast iron ingots when it was caught in the northwesterly force 10 gale. Some sources suggest it was driven ashore at Fruins Lake (Frainslake Sands?), near Neath. However, the vessel's Aberystwyth register entry is closed with the annotaton 'vessel lost in Freshwater Bay, near Milford'. Potter's Electric News contains two reports relating to the wreck. The first on 2 November 1859 - 'A wreck is reported to have come on shore at Linney Head during the gale on Tuesday evening. She is a schooner, laden with iron. She is supposed to be the schooner Wave, of Aberystwyth. The crew are to be all lost. On Wednesday evening the body or a man was washed ashore, near the above wreck'. The second report was a week later on 9 November 'A large quantity, about 81 tons of iron, which formed part of the cargo of the schooner, Wave,' of Aberystwyth, wrecked at Froynis Lake, has been saved, and the bodies of three of her crew have been found'.

Sources include:
Board of Trade Wreck Return 1859 Table 19 pg26 (529), House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Online, document 2623
Board of Trade Harbours of Refuge Committee 1859 pg120 (562)
Goddard, T, 1983, Pembrokeshire Shipwrecks, pg135
Larn and Larn Shipwreck Database 2002
Lloyds Register of British and Foreign Shipping, 1 July 1859 - 30 June 1860, number 97 in W
Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1989, Ships and Seafarers of Atlantic Canada, CD ROM
Port of Aberystwyth Shipping Register 1855-1862, Ceredigion Archive Service AT/SHIP 5, folio 34
Potters Electric News, 2 November 1859, pg2, Welsh Newspapers online, http://papuraunewyddcymru.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/3100143
Potters Electric, 9 November 1859, pg2, Wlesh Newspapers Online, http://papuraunewyddcymru.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/3100148

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, November 2013.