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
Friday 2 October 2015
Charlotte & Ann, October 1804
Waterford
October 30, On Friday last, the sloop, Charlotte and Ann, McKirdy, master, from
Liverpool to Galway, with salt, was driven on shore at the Lady’s Cave, Tramore
Bay, and soon after went to pieces, crew saved.[1]
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