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The sloop MARGARET was built at Ceibach near Newquay in 1841 and was one of the shipping losses during the Royal Charter Gale, 25-26 October 1859. Its port of Cardigan registration entry shown above provides a technical description:

Official number 24103. 26 83/3500 tons burthen. 1 deck, 1 mast, that her length from the inner part of the main stem to the forepart of the stern aloft is 38.6ft, her breadth in midships is 13.2ft, her depth in hold at midships is 7.2ft, that she is sloop rigged with a running bowsprit, square sterned, carvel built.

If you move your mouse over this image, you'll find more clues to the sloop's working life and the Welsh people who were associated with it. The list of owners lower down the page includes references to Thomas Thomas, shipwright; Evan Evans, ropemaker; and Thomas Evans, joiner. These craftsmen may have been involved in the sloop's building and fitting out.

The sales of shares recorded gives the occupations of the partners trading as Lloyd, Davies and Myers - Thomas Lloyd, ironmonger, Charles Davies, ironmonger and John Lloyd, iron founder. It is likely that the sloop delivered their products around the Welsh coast and helped to keep the furnaces supplied with coal from the south Wales ports. Can your local history research shed further light on the sloop's service life?

The MARGARET was at Newquay when the worst of the Royal Charter Gale struck. It was driven ashore and wrecked at Traethgwyn.

Sources include:
Passmore, S, 1982, Farmers and Figureheads: The Port of New Quay and its Hinterland, pg69-70
Port of Cardigan Shipping Register 1837 - 1850, Pembrokeshire Record Office T/SHIP/1/4, 25 in 1844
Troughton, W, 2006, Ceredigion Shipwrecks, pg42


Use the historic Ordnance Survey maps to locate the foundry at Cardigan owned by Messr Lloyd, Davies and Myers, and the place where the MARGARET was built near New Quay. Click on the MENU tab on the map to see which editions are available.

What do historic trade directories (e.g. Slater's) tell us about ship building activity at Cardigan and New Quay in the 19th century?

http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp

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