Chart of Tramore Bay

Chart of Tramore Bay

Saturday 31 October 2015

Red Deer, 10 January 1858

We perceive it is reported in the Shipping Gazette, that on the 10th instant a jibboom and a ship’s boat, painted black outside and white within, has been washed on shore at a place called Tramore, situate between Waterford and Cork. The report further states that the letters on the stern are nearly obliterated, but as well as could be distinguished, they appear to be ‘Redbere,’ William Lumsen. We have no doubt, therefore, that she belonged to the ill fate schooner ‘Red Deer,’ of this port, William Rumson, as she has been overdue from the Mediterranean, with a cargo of corn, for several weeks. She had spofen with both off Lisbon and Oporto. The Red Deer is nearly a new vessel, having been very recently launched from the building yard of Mr. Mayn, at the Bar.[1]



[1] Lake’s Falmouth Packet, 23 January 1858.

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