Chart of Tramore Bay

Chart of Tramore Bay

Wednesday 30 September 2015

The John and Marsha, 8 January 1745

On the 8th instant about 11 at night, the John and Marsha, from London bound to Dublin, laden with 470 quarters of malt, was wrecked in Tramore Bay, within five miles from Waterford. The master and men were saved but the ship went all to pieces in three hours’ time and the cargo was lost.[1]




[1] The London Post, 21 January 1745, Burney Collection.

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