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HMS Conway

Menai Strait, Anglesey

An old wooden warship wrecked in the Swellies.

HMS Conway was a training ship for young sailors, built in 1839 as a wooden ship of the line. In 1953, being towed through the dangerous Swellies in the Menai Strait, she ran aground near the Menai Suspension Bridge and broke her back.

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When
14 April 1953
Where
53.2140, -4.1700
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

The site can be seen from the shore near the Menai Bridge.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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