Chart of Tramore Bay

Chart of Tramore Bay

Wednesday 30 September 2015

Two Friends, 10 March 1769

We hear from Waterford that a vessel was lost in Tramore Bay on Friday night last, her name and destination not yet known’.[1]

Kilkenny 15 March, we learn from Waterford, that on Friday last, the Two Friends, Captain Heney, on a journey from London to for that port, was drove upon a rock about two miles to the westward of Tramore, as she was making the harbour of Waterford, and unfortunately hove to pieces. The captain and eight of the crew perished, and two men only were saved; the cargo, which consisted chiefly of   tobacco, sugar, iron and hops, is entirely lost.[2]




[1] Dublin Mercury, 14 March 1769.
[2] Same, 16 March 1769; Lloyd’s List, 21 March 1769.

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