The following is a list of shipwrecks and close calls in and around Tramore Bay in the first two decades of the Nineteenth Century. It can be hard to comprehend just how common shipwrecks were in this period. It has been estimated that some 2000 wrecks occurred world wide every year between 1793-1815. While, Sir … Continue reading Shipwrecks in Tramore and its Environs: part II, 1800-1820