Thanks for that, Gareth. I now realize that I've heard of the shipwreck - the details of the vicar writing so many letters, and the Dickens connection jogged my memory. I wouldn't be surprised that there's a ballad about the overall event, the type of thing that would have been written and printed in a local paper, but not necessarily sung or, if sung, not something which stuck in popular memory.

I'll take than info along to the Eisteddfod.

sian