Spring Flower

Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 May 2010 16:24

1851 – The Spring Flower was an oyster skiff which foundered in heavy weather off Slade's Foot.   Four men drowned.   They were all local men:  John Chalk, John Jenkins, James Rees and John Jones.   They were “skippers of their own skiffs whose crews had failed to turn up so they agreed to go together in one skiff.” [George Edmunds, The Gower Coast.] (Ref. 031)