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What is recorded here

Bee was a nine-ton wooden sloop built at Brockweir in 1831 and later owned at Chepstow. Her registry was closed with the note that she sank in the River Severn on 2 February 1850. No cause or casualty outcome is stated. The broad river marker is not a confirmed wreck position, but her ownership history makes her a clear local working craft.

The vessel and voyage

George Waters of Brockweir built Bee in 1831. The small sloop measured 28 feet long and nine net tons. Members of the Waters family and a Caldicot coal merchant first shared her before Thomas Sargeant of Chepstow bought her.

How it was lost

The Chepstow shipping register closes her entry with the words that the vessel sank in the Severn on 2 February 1850. It gives no voyage, cargo, weather or immediate cause for the sinking.

Deaths and survival

No number aboard, death or rescue is recorded in the short registry note. The human outcome remains unknown, since a registry closure was meant to record the ship's end and might omit a successful escape.

What remains

The point is assigned only to the named River Severn until a more exact place emerges. No archaeological remains are confirmed, and tides, mud and later river work may have scattered or buried a small wooden hull.

Why it mattered

Bee was built, owned and worked within the lower Wye and Severn trading world. Her detailed shares and dimensions restore the scale of the local craft even though the final sinking survives as only one registry sentence.