The St. Brides Major, Southerndown and Ogmore-by-Sea Community Website [920] has the following narrative : -

The ship Ben-y-gloe bound for Singapore from Penarth was a full-rigged iron ship which was wrecked when it ran aground at Nash Point near Marcross on 15th October, 1886.

People from many miles away went to plunder the wreck and the police searched the area in an attempt to locate the loot. Farm workers hid the ship's ropes underground when they were ploughing, articles were hidden under a chapel pulpit in Wick and a sail was placed in a culvert at Llandow.

Irish Farm worker Tommy Burke took the sail to the home of Mrs. Mary Preece in Llandow who took in sewing for 9d a day and she made a jacket from it. A maid cut a piece off the sleeve to make a duster and Tommy promptly had it sewn back on again. Tommy lodged with Mr. & Mrs. Davies (who kept the Post Office) and would walk 15 miles to Cardiff for Mass and then back again, leaving the jacket (which he wore when hedging and ditching) behind the door. There it stayed after his death until the house was being cleared by their son, Jack.

A tramp from Monknash was nicknamed Ben-y-gloe because of the amount he had taken from the ship and a cottage was known by the same name because a large amount of tobacco was found buried in the garden. Lord Dunraven sent food to the ship's crew and invited them to visit. They presented Lord Dunraven with the ship's bell and binnacle (the housing for a ship's compass) which were sent to his home in Ireland following the demolition of Dunraven Castle at Southerndown.

During the violent storms that occurred at the beginning of 2014, a wreck covering about 60 metres was exposed on the beach at Nash Point which it was thought could be the Ben-y-Gloe.

The iron hulled, general cargo, 3 masted, sailing ship 'Ben-y-Gloe' was built at the Kingston Yard of Russell & Company of Port Glasgow having been launched during September 1886. She was of 1,718 gross and 1,679 net register tons being 260.4 ft. long x 38.2 ft. breath x 23.1 ft. depth. [425]

8056. Ben-y-gloe, ship ; built at Port Glasgow, 1886 ; owned by J. Watson and others ; tonnage, 1,678 ; Penarth to Singapore ; coal ; stranded near Nash Point, Bristol Channel, October 15, 1886, when one life was lost.

Inquiry held at Glasgow, November 10, 1886, before Murray, Judge ; Methven, Curling and Pickard, N.A. Stranding principally due to master, when his vessel had parted from her tug, and was bearing up for shelter, following the course taken by the tug without checking it by the lead. - The Nautical Magazine [240] [499] v. 56 (Jan.-June 1887).