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Extract from Rhossili parish records noting burial of shipwrecked sailors, 1844, page 20 [image 1 of 2]
  • This memorial card was produced to mark the death of John Jones, the son of J. and A. Jones, Maes, Nefyn, who drowned in Porth Neigwl. John Jones lost his life when the ship 'Henry and Catherine' which was returning from Dublin was shipwrecked on 7 December 1866. He was aged 13 years and 8 months.
Memorial card of John Jones, Nefyn, who drowned in Porth Neigwl, December 1866
  • The four-masted barque S. S. Amazon was driven on to the beach at Margam in a severe gale. Tragically the ship broke up in the storm with the loss of all the crew. Source: Based on text supplied by Port Talbot Historical Society
The Wreck of the S. S. Amazon on Margam Sands, 1 September 1908
  • The three-mast schooner 'Gestiana' was built by David Williams of Porthmadog in 1913. She was the last ship to be built at Porthmadog. On her first voyage, she sailed across the Atlantic from Dysart, Scotland, to Newfoundland, bound for North Sydney, Nova Scotia. However, on 4 October 1913, she was caught in a heavy storm and driven ashore near Brig Lorraine, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 6 miles east of Louisburg, Newfoundland. The crew was rescued by Seaman J. N. Myonis, a Newfoundland seaman who had joined the ship a few weeks previously. He managed to get a line ashore and saved the remaining five crew members. The original documents (Log Book, Registration document etc.) were lost with the ship.
Copy of the Log Book of the schooner 'Gestiana', 1913 [title page, image 1 of 10]
  • The three-mast schooner 'Gestiana' was built by David Williams of Porthmadog in 1913. She was the last ship to be built at Porthmadog. On her first voyage, she sailed across the Atlantic from Dysart, Scotland, to Newfoundland, bound for North Sydney, Nova Scotia. However, on 4 October 1913, she was caught in a heavy storm and driven ashore near Brig Lorraine, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 6 miles east of Louisburg, Newfoundland. The crew was rescued by Seaman J. N. Myonis, a Newfoundland seaman who had joined the ship a few weeks previously. He managed to get a line ashore and saved the remaining five crew members. The original documents (Log Book, Registration document etc.) were lost with the ship.
List of Crew and other Particulars of the schooner 'Gestiana', 1913 [p. 1, image 1 of 3]
  • The three-mast schooner 'Gestiana' was built by David Williams of Porthmadog in 1913. She was the last ship to be built at Porthmadog. On her first voyage, she sailed across the Atlantic from Dysart, Scotland, to Newfoundland, bound for North Sydney, Nova Scotia. However, on 4 October 1913, she was caught in a heavy storm and driven ashore near Brig Lorraine, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 6 miles east of Louisburg, Newfoundland. The crew was rescued by Seaman J. N. Myonis, a Newfoundland seaman who had joined the ship a few weeks previously. He managed to get a line ashore and saved the remaining five crew members. The original documents (Log Book, Registration document etc.) were lost with the ship.
Agreement and Account of the Crew of the Gestiana, 7 June 1913 [image 1 of 3]