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
Beauty, 5 October 1817
The
Beauty, Northwood, of London, from Poole to Liverpool with pipe-clay, struck at
the bar of Rhineashark, near Waterford, about 5th inst. and split
some of her sails.[1]
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