Chart of Tramore Bay

Chart of Tramore Bay

Friday 2 October 2015

Les Deux Soeurs, 20 September 1810

Les Deux Soeurs (The Two Sisters), a chasse marre, ‘hunting tide’, a three masted lugger, 20 September 1810, prize of the Cadmus sloop of war, of 14 guns, Captain Thomas Fife, at Rhineshark:
On the morning of the 20th instant, the chasse marree, Les Deux Souers, of Nantz, prize to the Cadmus sloop of war, Capt. Fife, from Quiberon bay to Plymouth, mistook Tramore Bay, in a fog, for Waterford Harbour, and stood in; but by the advice and assistance of the people on that part of the coast, and the exertions of Mr. Barrett, Midshipman, and his crew, she was safely brought into the harbour of Rineshark. She had previously lost her mainmast in a gale of wind.[1]




[1] Waterford Mirror, 24 September 1810.

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