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Shipwrecks in Tramore and its Environs: part II, 1800-1820
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
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Shipwrecks in Tramore Bay and its Environs: Part I, The Eighteenth Century.
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 driven into the bay and shipwrecked in a storm, over two hundred years ago, on 30 January 1816. This article chronicles the reports of Continue reading
Tramore of Yore 