Ivan Fitzgerald’s Tramore of Yore site has some terrific articles on our local maritime past. This latest, on Shipwrecks in Tramore Bay, is a wonderful piece of research into 18th C shipwrecks. 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 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.”

Detail from the Tramore section of William Doyle’s chart from his chart of Waterford Harbour and Tramore Bay in 1738

To read the full account click on the link below

Shipwrecks in Tramore Bay and its Environs: Part I, The Eighteenth Century.