This record consists of a documentary reference to a shipping casualty which has been assigned to the maritime named location BREAKSEA POINT pending more information which may allow a more precise location for the loss to be assigned.
Event and Historical Information:
The MARQUIS was a small, iron-hulled steamship built by T D Marshall of South Shields in 1855. Technical and configuration specifications are given as 119gt, 73nt; 94ft length x 18ft breadth x 9ft depth; screw propulsion powered by a single steam boiler linked to a compound engine producing 15hp; official number 19373.
At time of loss on 8 June 1894, the vessel was owned by A J Smith of Bristol. Under the command of master, J Bowring, the MARQUIS was carying a cargo to tin plate from Swansea to Bristol when it ran aground on Breaksea Point.
Sources include:
Board of Trade Wreck Return 1894, Appendix C, Table 1, p.147 (507)
Evening Express, 9 June 1894, p.3
Larn and Larn shipwreck Database 2002
Lloyd's Register Casualty Returns, 1 April - 30 June 1894, p.7 (g)
Lloyd's Register of Brisith and Foreign Shipping, 1 July 1889 - 30 June 1890, number 264 in M
Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, May 2009.
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