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
Swift, January 1840
Waterford, Jan. 17.— A quantity of wreck
and some plank of a vessels quarter, marked " Swift," were
washed on shore at Tramore a few days since.[1]
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