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Myra

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NPRN525152
Map ReferenceSM70NE
Grid ReferenceSM7511109103
Unitary (Local) AuthorityMaritime
Old CountyMaritime
CommunityMaritime
Type Of SiteWRECK
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
This record comprises a documentary reference to a shipping casualty which has been assigned to the maritime named location JACK SOUND pending more information which may allow a more precise location for the loss to be assigned.

Event and Historical Information:
The MYRA was a 31ton wooden sloop built by David Simon at Newquay in 1831. It was wrecked in Jack Sound in 1868.

Sources include:
Campbell-Jones, S, 1974, Shipbuilding at New Quay 1779-1878, Journal of the Ceredigion Antiquarian Society, pg300

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, September 2012.