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
Tuesday 20 October 2015
Margaret, July 1832
The Margaret,
yacht, from Dublin for Cork, was wrecked at Tramore about half past
ten on Saturday night, having mistaken the bay for Waterford. No lives lost.[1]
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