About one o’clock on Wednesday, a brig
that had been tossing about the coast for some hours before, was stranded near
the men’s bathing place on Tramore Strand. The crew had not been landed when
our correspondent left, but they were likely to be saved.[1]
On Wednesday, about one o’clock p.m., a
French schooner, named the Two Sisters, bound from Nice to Rouen, cargo tallow,
oil and dyewood, was stranded at Tramore and was dashed to pieces on the next
tide. Crew saved.[2]
A meeting of the subscribers of Lloyd’s
was held on 30 December, when it was decided “that £20 be voted to Patrick
Coffey for his heroic conduct in plunging into the sea on horseback in Tramore
Bay (Ireland), and saving the crew of the Deux Soeurs, wrecked there on the 25th ult."[3]
Besides the £20 voted to him by Lloyd’s, he was rewarded £2 and a silver medal
from the Ship Institution, and a grant of £5 from the Chamber of Commerce of
Waterford.
Waterford Chronicle, 16 January 1836
Waterford Chronicle, 30 April 1836
Waterford Mail, 16 November 1836
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