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The Gresham Ship

Wreck

Why this matters

The Gresham Ship was a 17th-century merchant vessel wrecked near Stoney Cove, Ireland, likely due to storm damage. It was lost with its cargo of wine and timber; no lives were reported lost. The wreck is significant for its well-preserved state and as an example of early transatlantic trade.

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Overview

The Gresham Ship is recorded as a wreck near England Blaby but does not give a safe loss year. The saved source adds: Underwater shipwreck https://www.stoneycove.com/gresham-ship.html The exact identity, cause, people and remains are kept open wherever that wording does not settle them.

The vessel and voyage

OpenStreetMap contributors records The Gresham Ship. 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 Blaby, at 52.54160, -1.27214. 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

The extra condition or identity words in the saved source make this a better lead than a bare map point. 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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