This record consists of a documentary reference to a shipping casualty which has been assigned to the maritime named location BULL POINT OFFSHORE (in English waters) pending more information becoming available. Additional information may allow a more precise location for the loss to be assigned.

Event and Historical Information:
The GLADYS was a wooden pilot cutter built in 1886 at based at Cardiff. The pilot cutter was seeking pilotage work from vessels in the Bristol Channel under the command of master its master and owner W Jenkins. The GLADYS was in collision with another Cardiff registered pilot cutter and LEAD ON on the 25 October 1889 during a northeasterly force 6 gale (see NPRN 274570). Both vessels subsequently foundered.

Sources include:
Baord of Trade Wreck Return 1889 Appendix C Table 1 pg138 (650)
Larn and Larn shipwreck database 2002

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, August 2008.