The
first ship to be recorded as wrecked in the vicinity of Tramore Bay was a navy
fire ship that was driven against Brownstown Head in a raging storm on 17
November 1703:
News
from Waterford, Mr Kent, Collector at Waterford in his letters to the
commissioners on the 20th, says that, last Wednesday came in a ship about 50
tons, to anchor in Tramore Bay, but that night she was driven against
Brownstown Head by a very violent storm and dashed to pieces. No lives were
saved and the surveyor of Passage who was sent to look for wreckage, reports
that nothing worth saving was found [details]. The bodies of dead men beaten to
pieces against the rocks were found. Enclosed papers include a fragment of a
commission to Lord Granville, Lieutenant-General of Ordnance, [details], gives
rise to the belief that the vessel was a fire ship or bomb vessel belonging to
the Queen.[1]
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