Chart of Tramore Bay

Chart of Tramore Bay

Friday 2 October 2015

Commerce, 17 February 1811

A sloop of Plymouth, master John Wilcocks, lost on 17 February 1811, on a journey from Waterford to London, stranded in the bay. She carried a cargo of butter lard & c which expected to be saved.
Two vessels were on Sunday night last driven into Tramore Bay. The name of the first is, the Commerce of Plymouth, John Wilcocks, master, bound from Waterford to London, with lard & c. The crew were saved, and it was hoped that the vessel and the greater part of the cargo would also be preserved. The name of the second is the schooner Grinder, of London, William Robinson, late master, with a cargo of Spanish wool, from Lisbon. She was taken by the French privateer, Speculator, retaken by the Favourite sloop of war, and carried into Plymouth, from which port, as she was proceeding to London, she was driven into Tramore Bay. The crew were saved.[1]




[1] Freeman’s Journal, 23 February 1811.

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