This record comprises a documentary reference to a shipping casualty which has been assigned to the maritime named location WEST HOYLE BANK pending more information which may allow a more precise location for the loss to be assigned.
Event and Historical Information:
The YOUNG GIPSY was a wooden galliot built at Liverpool in 1834. Technical and configuration specifications are given as 98 tons burthen; 72ft 10 in length x 22ft breadth x 12ft depth; 1 deck, 2 masts, galliot rigged with running bowsprit, round stern, carvel built, billet head. The galliot was purchased from John Tobin of Liverpool, merchant, by Crawshay Bailey of Nanty Glo (?), iron work master (16 shares) and Joseph Bailey of Glan Usk of Brecon, iron master (48 shares) in April 1837. It was transferred to the Newport Shipping Register at that time. Its final register entry is closed with the annotation 'vessel wrecked on the Hoyle Sands near Rhyl on 1 October 1861'.
Sources include:
Port of Newport Shipping Register 1824-1837, Gwent Archives D1847/1, folio 187
Port of Newport Shipping Register: Transactions 1855-1905, Gwent Archives D1847/6, folio 56
