Old Wye Bridge Chepstow? (General)

by I Hickman, Thursday, March 20, 2014, 12:19 (3902 days ago)

Don’t know if this is the correct forum for this, if not please feel free to delete it. I notice that a number of sources quote an accident as one of the reasons that the old wooden bridge was replaced E.g. “but action was eventually taken after a ship collided with the wooden bridge, demolishing part of it and causing six deaths”. But I cannot find any contemporary reports which seem to tally with this. I have found a report of an incident on the 20th Sept 1812 of a small fishing boat carrying 12 people running foul of a hawser attached to the bridge apparently killing 7 people on the boat. But no mention of damage to the bridge. There are a number of other reports of tragic incidents involving one or two individuals and also the bad state of the bridge. But nothing that seems to match this, any ideas?