Chart of Tramore Bay

Chart of Tramore Bay

Tuesday 20 October 2015

Le Speculateur, Lord Ebrington, William & Swayne, November 1838

At nine o’clock on Wednesday night, a small vessel, apparently a brig, called Le Speculateur of St. Malo, was totally wrecked on Tramore Strand. There is much reason to feared that the crew were washed overboard before she came in. She went instantly to pieces and nothing was saved.
A Part of the wreck of the Lord Ebrington was also driven in. This vessel foundered on the Cornwall or Welch coast ten days previously, on her way from some English port tp Swansea, laden with copper ore. The wreck was broken by the violence of these gales.
Fragments of a wreck marked as having belonged to a vessel named the William were also washed in at Tramore.
At two o’clock on Wednesday, the brig Swaine, for Cork for Newport, in ballast, was driven ashore at Bonmahon. The crew were saved.[1]

The Speculation, of St. Maloes, was totally lost in Tramore Bay 28 ult..[2]




[1]Southern Reporter, 1 December 1838.
[2] The Times. 5 December 1838.

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