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
Saturday 31 October 2015
Achilles, June 1852
Passage (Waterford), June 26—The barque
Achilles, Varden, for Sunderland, got into Tramore Bay, and was compelled
to be run on shore, but is expected to be got off without much damage.[1]
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