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What is recorded here

Beatrice Maclean was a 249-net-ton wooden three-masted schooner reported wrecked on the west side of St Catherine's Island on 29 August 1893. The record may refer to Pembrokeshire or to an island in Canada, and Welsh newspapers show no matching loss. This is an uncertain documentary pin: neither a Welsh location nor surviving remains are proved.

The vessel and voyage

Beatrice Maclean was a wooden three-masted schooner of 249 net tons, registered in the British colonies. The short casualty return does not give her cargo, route, master, home port or number aboard.

How it was lost

Lloyd's casualty return says she was wrecked on the west side of St Catherine's Island on 29 August 1893. It does not identify which island, and the name can point either to Pembrokeshire or to Canada.

Deaths and survival

No trustworthy death or survival figure is given. Because no matching 1893 report was found in the Welsh newspaper search, attaching a local crew story would compound the unresolved question over which country held the loss.

What remains

No remains are confirmed at this Welsh point. Until a voyage or coordinates establish Pembrokeshire, the map marker should be treated as a research lead rather than evidence that the schooner lies beside Tenby's St Catherine's Island.

Why it mattered

This record matters as a warning about repeated place names in worldwide shipping returns. Keeping the Canadian possibility visible prevents a neat Welsh story being made from a loss that may have happened across the Atlantic.