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

Event and Historical Information:
The THREE SUSANS was a wooden brigantine built by John Parry at Bangor in 1843. Technical and configuration specifications are given as 97 tons burthen; 63ft length x 19ft breadth x 11.1ft depth in hold; 1 deck, 2 masts; brigantine rigged with a standing bowsprit, square sterned, carvel built, a woman's bust head, official number 25384. The brigantine was owned by its builder at time of loss. Its Port of Beaumaris Shipping Register entry has retained the owner's headed letter (Parry & Co, Merchants, Ship & Boat builders, Shipsmiths, Ship Chandlers and Sailmakers, Bangor) declaring the loss - 'January 26 1865. Dear Sir, We forgot to sent to you that the 'Three Susans' was lost in Porthdinllaen in December 1863, and shall feel obliged by your notifying the same. R & J Parry, executors of the late John Parry'.

Sources include:
Port of Beaumaris Shipping Register 1845 - 1855, Gwynedd Archive Service Caernarfvon XSR 9, 16 in 1848

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, January 2013.