Chart of Tramore Bay

Chart of Tramore Bay

Wednesday 30 September 2015

Providential Friends, 28 December 1763

‘We hear from Waterford, that the Providential Friends of Liverpool, Harrison, commander, bound from this port for thence, was wrecked in Tramore Bay, and but three of the crew were saved.’[1] 

The Providential Friend, Harrison, from Liverpool for Waterford, put into Drunmoor Bay the 28th instant in distress; the crew quitted her and took to their boat which overset, and out of 11 men, 8 of them perished.[2]




[1] Freeman’s Journal, 7 January 1764.
[2] Lloyd’s List, 10 January 1764.

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