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
Shamrock, November 1814
The name of the
vessel, mentioned in our last as having been lost off Bonmahon, was the
Shamrock, belonging to Kinsale.[1]
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