Ivan Fitzgerald’s Tramore of Yore site has some terrific articles on our local maritime past. His latest endevour is a listing of all the Shipwrecks Tramore Bay and its environs, from the 18th C onwards. I can’t reblog the page (my lack of technical know how on show again) but hopefully this will direct you to his site.
As Ivan introduces the first article – “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, over two hundred years ago, on 30 January 1816. This article chronicles the reports of shipwrecks, narrow escapes and other nautical occurrences of note in the bay area.”
To read the full account click on the link below, and subsequent articles are listed too
Shipwrecks in Tramore Bay and its Environs: Part I, The Eighteenth Century.
0 Comments