The
brig Sarsfield was the subject of a salvage case brought before the Court of Admiralty
in December 1849. The cause of salvage was instituted by Henry Harpur, Chief
Officer of the Coast Guards stationed at Ballymacaw and the men under his
command and by Martin Flynn and certain other fishermen:
The
Sarsfield, 136 tons, Healy master, and a crew of five hands, forty seven days
from St. John’s, New Brunswick, with a cargo of timber, arrived off Newtown
Head on the coast of the county Waterford, on 18 October 1849 and being unable
from the state of the wind and current then setting in, to weather that
headland, tacked and coming off the entrance to Tramore Bay, entered it about 6
o’clock in the evening of the same day and was immediately in good holding
ground and a sheltered position brought to anchor in seven fathoms water…[1]
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