Chart of Tramore Bay

Chart of Tramore Bay

Tuesday 20 October 2015

Providence, November 1830

About noon on Saturday, a smack, the Providence, of and from Newport, John James, master, drove on the rocks between the western end of Tramore Strand and the “Doneraile Cove,” about one hundred yards at this side of the latter. The vessel went to pieces during the ensuing night. She was bound for Cork, laden with coals, iron and tin. Crew saved.[1]

Wreck Sale
To be sold by Auction, on Thursday, Dec 2, at Tramore, for the benefit of whom it may concern, about 33 tons of Bar Iron, saved from the wreck of the sloop, Providence, also, 1 ton  15 lbs of tin plate; a quantity of wood blocks of various size; a quantity of wood hoops; the principal part of the standing and running rigging; a quantity of old and new canvas; several tarpaulin, a mast, boom, gaff, topmast and bowsprit; two excellent chain cables and anchors, as good as new, with a variety of other articles.
The property can be viewed on or before the day of sale.
Approved bills of two months will be taken.
For further particulars, apply, if by letter post-paid, to Mr John James, at Mr David Phelan’s Strand Inn, Tramore; or to Mr John P Galway, Auctioneer, at Mr Delany’s Waterford Tavern.
The sale will be found worth the attention of wholesale dealers and others, as the entire of the property will be sold without reserve.
November 29, 1830.[2]






[1] Waterford Chronicle, 23 November 1830.
[2] Waterford Chronicle, 2 December 1830.

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