Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - Storms and their effects . . .

• July 1895 - Stranding of a Yacht at Penarth

'On Monday evening Mr. Phillip Morel's yacht May, while at anchor in Penarth Roads, drifted during a gale from her moorings, and was carried on to the beach near the Kymin. She began to fill, despite the efforts of four men named Tom Searle, Morgan, Phil Searle, and William Parker, who did all they could to lighten her. There is every probability of her becoming a wreck.' Penarth Chronicle and District Advertiser [375] [361] 6th July 1895.

	In 1894 Phillip Morel was in the limelight at the Board of Trade enquiry into the loss of the steamship 'Penarth' in the Black Sea off Turkey. The Court of Enquiry at Cardiff held that the master was in default and they suspended his certificate for three months.
The 'Penarth' was a steam vessel built at West Hartlepool in 1893, by Messrs W. Gray & Co., Limited, and registered at the Port of Cardiff, being owned by Messrs. Morel & Co., Limited, of 2, Stuart Street, Cardiff. Mr. Philip Morel lived at Marine Parade, Penarth, and was the managing owner, having been appointed as such on the 5th June 1893.

• August 1895 - Drowned from a Channel Steamer - Sailor Lost Off the Nash

'As the passenger steamer 'Lady Margaret', Messrs. Edwards, Robertson, and Company's new boat, was making her way back to Cardiff from Tenby on Monday, one of her crew, a young fellow named Eli Roberts of Penarth, was lost overboard in the vicinity of the Nash. It appears the passage had been an extremely rough one, the waves being so boisterous as to render it necessary that all ropes and loose gear should be stowed away below, and it would appear as though Roberts had gone below when the vessel had approached comparatively smooth waters for some of the ropes, and was in the act of placing a fender over the side, near the sponson, ready to protect the berthing at Penarth Pier, when possibly the weight of the fender, together with the lurching of the vessel, caused the poor fellow to lose his balance and fall overboard. No one saw the occurrence, and nothing yet to now has been seen of the body.' Penarth Chronicle and District Advertiser [375] [361] 17th August 1895.