This record consists of a documentary reference to a shipping casualty which has been assigned to the maritime named location LAVERNOCK POINT pending more information which may allow a more precise location for the loss to be assigned.

Event and Historical Information:
The WYE was a wooden trow built at Bristol in 1869. Technical and configuration specifications are given as 42gt, 36nt; 66ft 3in length x 14ft 2in breadth x 5ft 4in depth; single mast; official number 28503. At time of loss, the vessel was owned by Humphry Osbourne & Wallis, Cardiff. The WYE was enroute from Bristol to Ely Harbour at Penarth when it ran onshore near Lavernock Point on 22 December 1901. The trow was first registered at Chepstow on 16 August 1860, and through its service life belonged to a timber and coal merchants at Llandogo, Trelleck, Bristol and Cardiff

Sources include:
Board of Trade Wreck Return 1901 Appendix C Table 1 pg131 (699)
Farr, G, 1954, Chepstow Ships, Chepstow Society Historical Association, pg 160
Larn and Larn shipwreck Database 2002

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, March 2009.