Afon Cefni was a four-masted barque of 2,066 gross register tons (GRT).

[1] Named Afon Cefni for the river in Anglesey, the barque had a short career.

On 5 January 1894, Afon Cefni departed Swansea, Wales for San Francisco, California.

[1] From 20 January to 5 February pieces of wreckage from the ship were collected along the Cornish and Sussex coasts.

The identity of the wreckage was ascertained when a lifebuoy bearing Afon Cefni's name washed up on the Sussex coast.