For centuries, Tramore Bay in County Waterford has held an infamous reputation as a graveyard of ships. The most famous of the wrecks being that of the Sea Horse transport, which was driven into the bay and shipwrecked in a storm, almost two hundred years ago, on 30 January 1816.
Chart of Tramore Bay
Wednesday 30 September 2015
Friendship, August 1769
‘Thursday morning, the Friendship, from Cork for Waterford, loaded
with staves, was drove on the Tramore strand, but it is thought that she will
be got off, without receiving any damage’.[1]
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