Site Record

This record comprises a documentary reference to a shipping casualty which has been assigned to the maritime named location RIVER SEVERN pending more information which may allow a more precise location for the loss to be assigned.

Event and Historical Information:
The HAPPY GO LUCKY was a wooden trow built at Bridgnorth in 1841. It was placed on the port of Bristol Shipping Register on 26 February 1914 (formerly 15 in 1887 at Gloucester). At which time, technical and configuration specifications were given as 49gt.rt; 68,3ft length x 16.5ft breadth x 6.4ft depth; fore and aft deck, 1 mast, rigging trow, stern square, built carvel, framework wood; official number 3878. At time of loss, the vessel was owned by Alfred J Smith Ltd of Bristol who also owned several other of the older traditional barges and trows of the upper Severn (e.g. LONGNEY LASS, NPRN 515721). The vessel's register entry was closed on 21 April 1914 with the annotation 'Vessel lost in River Severn'.

Sources include:
Larn and Larn Shipwreck Database 2002
Lloyds List, 2 September 1823, issue number 5834

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, February 2011.