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Merkur

Wreck

Why this matters

Merkur was a vessel recorded in the National Monuments Record of Wales as a wreck from the 20fed Ganrif (20th century). Specific details on when and how it was lost, any lives or cargo lost, and its broader significance are not provided in the available record.

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Overview

Merkur is recorded as a wreck near Wales Cardiff but does not give a safe loss year. The saved public record fixes the available name, type, time and place, but does not safely establish the voyage, cause, people or surviving hull. This fast account keeps those gaps visible instead of turning a map point into invented history.

The vessel and voyage

National Monuments Record of Wales — Royal Commission records Merkur. The name is kept exactly as the public wreck record gives it. The saved material does not establish the owner, cargo, starting point, destination or purpose of the voyage unless those facts are stated above.

How it was lost

The saved record does not give a reliable year for the loss. It does not say what caused the loss, so storm, collision, grounding, attack, fire and deliberate sinking must all remain open unless later evidence proves one of those causes.

Deaths and survival

The saved record names no confirmed people and gives no checked number for deaths or survivors. That silence does not mean that nobody died or that everyone escaped; it means the saved public evidence does not establish the human outcome.

What remains

The saved point is in or nearest to Cardiff, at 51.36618, -3.26876. The saved material gives no useful account of the hull, cargo, depth, damage, burial or later recovery. A map point can mark the centre of a site or an approximate place, so it must not be treated as proof of the exact spread of remains.

Why it mattered

At present this record matters as a local lead, not as proof of a nationally important event. Its wider effect, local memory and any memorial are not established by the saved public evidence and should not be invented from the name alone.

History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.

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