Chart of Tramore Bay

Chart of Tramore Bay

Friday 2 October 2015

Mona: 29 December 1802,

The Mona, J Foulks master, was a three masted, square rigged ship of 317 tons burden; with a draught of water of 13 ft. when loaded. She was built on the River Thames in 1787 and sheathed with copper in 1801, owned by Penny & C. She held an A1 classification and was last described as a constant trader between Liverpool and Africa.[1]

The Mona, Foulkes, from Jamaica to Liverpool, is totally lost off Bonmahon, near Waterford, crew saved. Part of the Dollars and some bales of cotton saved.[2]

Cork, 3 January, On Wednesday morning last in a gale of wind, the ship Mona, Captain Foulkes, laden with sugars, coffee, cocoa &c. and bound from Kingston to Liverpool was lost off Bonmahon strand, together with nearly her entire cargo-crew saved.[3]


[1] Lloyds Register,1802.
[2] Lloyd’s List, 7 January 1803.
[3] Belfast Newsletter, 7 January 1803.

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