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
The Commerce, February 1834
The
Commerce, of Bideford, Vine, master, from Cardiff to Waterford, laden with coals, which sailed
from Milford on Sunday week, was wrecked with all hands between Tramore Bay and
Waterford.[1]
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