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 MORNING STAR was a wooden smack built at Aberystwyth in 1826. Technical and configuration specifications are given as 38 tons; 44ft length x 14.4ft breadth amidships x 8.15ft depth amidships, smack rigged with a running bowsprit, square stern, carvel built; official number 9864. At time of loss, shares in the vessel were divided amongst a consortium drawn from Aberystwyth, New Quay, Newport and Neath (including Isaac Thomas, John Thomas, and John James of Aberystwyth, mariners; Thomas Jones, Victualler of Aberystwyth; Hibson Perkins, merchant of Newport ; John Peer, merchant of Newport; John Arthur of Neath, merchant; and John Arthur merchant of Neath). The smack's registry at the Port of Aberystwyth was closed on 19 April 1860 after it was reported that the vessel had been lost at the bay of Ceibwr near Cardigan on 25 October 1859 (during the Royal Charter Gale). Three crewmembers were drowned. The headstone commemorating the master, Isaac Thomas and his son Lewis, can now be seen near the Castle Theatre, Aberystwyth. A second headstone, believed to be the 14 year old boy also onboard, Thomas Davies, lies close by.

Sources include:
Board of Trade Wreck Return 1859, Table 19, pg 26, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Online document 2623
Lloyds Register of British and Foreign Shipping, 1 July 1859 - 30 June 1860, 889 in M
Mercantile Navy List 1858, pg 285 (online source Google Books)
Pembrokeshire Herald 11 November 1859, Welsh Newspapers Online
Port of Aberystwyth Shipping Register 1832 - 1840, Ceredigion Archive Service AT/SHIP 2, Folio 50
Troughton, W, 2006, Ceredigion Shipwrecks, pg12-13

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, May 2010.