Archaeological remains associated with the loss of this vessel are not confirmed as present at this location, but may be in the vicinity.

Event and Historical Information:
The WILLIAM AND EMMA was a 50 ton ketch (1 mast), measuring 55ft length overall and 20 ft beam. The keelson was made from 3 baulks of pitch pine. The vessel was fitted with a petrol engine in the 1920s/1930s. The plan accompanying the transcript of an oral history interview with Mr Stanley Arthur (dated 1 June 1971) shows the vessel abandoned in The Gullam in association with two others - the CHARLIE PEARCE and the CHARLIE PEARCE. The keel is orientated northeast-southwest and the bow of the CHARLIE PEARCE abutts to it on its port side. Nothing appears visible on modern aerial photographs, although the vegetation appears to have a harder edge on the channel side which may have corresponded with the side of this vessel. The channels are now heavily silted and naturalised. Mr Arthur began working at The Croft Quarry and then in The Gullam around 1919-20, continuing until callled up in 1939. The boats working from and owned by the quarries carried stone to Milford, Haverfordwest, Blackpool Mill, Hook, Angle, Sandy Haven and Dale. When tides permitted, two loads per week were taken to the Gas Works Quay in Haverfordwest. This was limestone for burning. At other times, small stones (2in stone, broken down by hand) was used for road making and was taken to Dale or Sandy Haven. Very large sandstone blocks were supplied for the building of Hobb's Point at Pembroke Dock. When entering the dock (all canals and cuttings inside the quarries were generally known as docks), the vessels were poled in barge fashion on the first of the tide (15ft-20ft poles being used). The quarries stopped working at beginning of World War II, but it is believed that the vessels were laid up before then, around 1937/8.

Sources include:
Notes on West Williamstone Limestone Quarries from oral testimony recording 1 June 1971, interviewees Mr Stanley Arthur and Mrs Arthur, Rock Farm, West Williamstone, interviewers M W D Brace and S A Holm, RCAHMW collections
NAW Aerial Photographs 2006-9

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, June 2013.