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
Unknown brig, June 1769
‘A brig with a lyon-head, burthen about 200 tons, bound from
Dublin to some port in Munster is wrecked in Tramore Bay and the cargo entirely
lost but the crew were saved.’[1]
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