Overview
Sam Slick is recorded as a wreck off the Gwynedd coast. The distinctive name is useful, but the saved public evidence does not yet give a safe year, vessel type, voyage, cause, loss of life or description of remains, so this is kept as a firm lead rather than a completed story.
The vessel and voyage
The Welsh national record names Sam Slick at this Gwynedd point. The checked material does not establish the owner, master, cargo, starting port, destination or kind of vessel.
How it was lost
No reliable year or cause is given in the sources used here. Nothing in the map point alone can distinguish grounding, foundering, collision, fire or abandonment.
Deaths and survival
No crew or passenger names and no death or survivor count have been confirmed. The absence of those facts must stay visible.
What remains
The point lies off Gwynedd at about 52.87942, -4.41915. The record does not say whether a recognisable hull, scattered objects or buried remains survive.
Why it mattered
The record adds a named loss to the maritime history of the Gwynedd coast, but its effect on people or trade cannot yet be measured from the surviving public details.
History checked 2026-08-15 against the named sources below.
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