This record comprises a documentary reference to a shipping casualty which has been assigned to the maritime named location BRISTOL CHANNEL pending more information which may allow a more precise location for the loss to be assigned.
Event and Historical Information:
The LILY was a small wooden steamship built by John Kent at Cardiff in 1891. Technical and configuration specifications are given as 15gt/rt; 42.7ft length x 10.2ft breadth x 19ft girth, length of engine room 18.1ft. Screw propulsion powered by a single boiler linked to a single surface-condensing engine (cylinder diameter 11.5 in, length of stroke 11in) producing 5ihp. The vessel was placed on the port of Cardiff Shipping Register by John Kent with Thomas Robert Brown noted as manager.
The ship's registry was closed with the annotation 'Vessel abandoned on fire in Bristol Channel 14 February 1891'.
Sources include:
Port of Cardiff Shipping Register 1885 -1895, Glamorgan Archives, folio 102
