tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50339968397263866492024-03-13T13:18:19.867-07:00The Wrecks of the Sea Horse, Boadicea and Lord Melville TransportsThe Sea Horse, Lord Melville and Boadicea transports were shipwrecked on the south coast of Ireland, almost two hundred years ago, on 30 and 31 January 1816.
Taken in tandem, the wrecks represent one of the greatest maritime disasters to have been recorded in Irish waters, perhaps surpassing even the horror of the wreck of L’Impatiente, a frigate from a French invasion fleet that foundered off Mizen Head on 29 December 1796, with the loss of 552 lives. Ivan Fitzgeraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12707837599657049913noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033996839726386649.post-41209123671737730422016-07-07T04:50:00.003-07:002016-07-09T12:06:30.618-07:00Descendants of a Sea Horse Rescuer?<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
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the recent unveiling of the <i>Sea Horse</i>
Cairn, the Mayor of Waterford offered thanks to the descendants of the rescuers
of the people on the <i>Sea Horse</i> that
were present, including the Keoghans of Tramore. Further to this a document was
distributed by the committee stating that ‘local fishermen of the Keoghan
family assisted those from the wreck of the Sea Horse’ and that a great number
of the ‘Keoghan descendants’ continue to reside in Tramore. The only reason that I can see, that the
Keoghans are singled out for such prominence over all the other Tramore names
mentioned is that the decision was strongly influenced by Maxine Keoghan, <i>Sea Horse</i> commemoration committee member
and editor of a booklet about the ship entitled <i>The Shipwrecked Soldiers Cairn.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/MAX/At%20the%20recent%20unveiling%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse%20Cairn.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></i>
According to Maxine, her family lore suggested that her paternal ancestors, Keohan
fishermen from Newtown, were part of the life boat crew involved in the rescue of
the Sea Horse. However, she has since been made<span class="apple-converted-space"> aware</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">that there was
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Maxine Keoghan’s paternal genealogy can
be traced with certainty back to her great grandfather Laurence Keohan, a
fisherman residing in Newtown, born circa 1834-39.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/MAX/At%20the%20recent%20unveiling%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse%20Cairn.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> His
parentage and the place of his birth are somewhat uncertain due to a gap in the
baptismal records, the records for Tramore between 1831 and 1858 being
destroyed in a fire.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/MAX/At%20the%20recent%20unveiling%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse%20Cairn.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> However
three Keohans appear in the same area on Griffith’s valuation in 1851, namely Thomas
Keohan, Laurence Keohan and Patrick Keohan.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/MAX/At%20the%20recent%20unveiling%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse%20Cairn.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
One of these men is almost certainly her great-great-great grandfather. The
baptisms of all three men are recorded in the Tramore parish register. They
were brothers. Patrick was baptised on 6 November 1802, Thomas on 22 October
1807 and Laurence on 29 May 1813. Their father’s name was Laurence and he was
married in Tramore on 20 January 1799.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/MAX/At%20the%20recent%20unveiling%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse%20Cairn.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The relevant names of the supposed
rescuers of the <i>Sea Horse</i> listed on an
affidavit (The affidavit was later discredited when one of the supposed
signatories, Thomas Kirwan denied all knowledge of the events described in it.)
were John Keohan, Thomas Keohan and Thomas Keohan Jun.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/MAX/At%20the%20recent%20unveiling%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse%20Cairn.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> There
is no evidence whatsoever that these men were fishermen as no record exits of
their trade or of their deeds. The only name which matches the names in
Maxine’s genealogy is Thomas who was a 9 year old boy at the time of the wreck.
Maxine has argued in the past that all the Tramore Keohans are descended from
fishermen from Newtown and she can consider herself ‘indirectly descended’ from
all the Keohans of the Tramore area. This is an utter fallacy, as there were
other people of the name living in the area at that time; some were paying
tithes in Tramore. You’re either descended from someone or you’re not and while
there may well be descendants of these men living in the Tramore area, Maxine’s
extended family going back 6 generations are certainly not descended from the
men named as rescuers of the <i>Sea Horse</i>,
in a largely discredited affidavit.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/MAX/At%20the%20recent%20unveiling%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse%20Cairn.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/MAX/At%20the%20recent%20unveiling%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse%20Cairn.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Censuses of Ireland 1901 and
1911, Tramore, County Waterford, National Archives of Ireland, online at
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Ivan Fitzgeraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12707837599657049913noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033996839726386649.post-70500000291790932732016-01-16T02:31:00.000-08:002019-01-30T13:55:15.450-08:00The Sea Horse Burials and Memorials<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The burial places of the bodies of those lost on the <i>Sea Horse</i> have caused great confusion for nearly 200 years. Three sites: Tramore Church yard, Drumcannon Church yard and the Rabbit Burrows were all claimed to hold burials of officers and men. The Drumcannon Church of Ireland Parish Register recorded by the Reverend John Cooke, relating to the wreck </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">was destroyed in 1922</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> However, Cooke made a copy of the original</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">, according to which, the burials commenced on 2 February, when thirty three persons, 11 men, 6 women and 16 children were buried at Drumcannon ruined church and graveyard on the outskirts of Tramore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> The first of the deceased officers to be buried was Lieutenant Dent whose body was cast on shore on 1 February: ‘This day one dead officer has been cast on shore; his name is Dent. Thirty two bodies were yesterday buried in one grave, men women and children. My pen recoils- my heart trembles as I write! Brave warriors! Companions of Wellington! And liberators of the world! Was this your hoped return?’ Dent’s funeral, which actually took place on 2 February, was reported to be mournfully striking, the officers and privates of a party of the 97<sup>th</sup> Regiment attended with arms reversed, and three volleys were fired over the grave. Mr Cooke, read the funeral service with feeling and dignity. The Rev Mr Wall, Catholic Assistant Clergyman, waited on the invalid officers and proffered, with great kindness and feeling, his and the Parish priest’s best offices. ‘All was a union of harmony and feeling for the sufferers. Several Ladies and Gentlemen gave assistance to the officers’. Cooke’s register records the burials of Lieutenant Dent of the 59<sup>th</sup> Regiment, 2 men, 1 woman and 1 boy on 3 February.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> There were no further burials recorded for over a week, until, on 12 February, Lieutenants Ross, Gillespie and Geddes were buried at Drumcannon. Lieutenant John Cowper reported that Geddes body had been washed up in a letter dated 7 February, a considerable time before the burial. The bodies were reported to be kept in a shed. Two days later, Mrs Baird, wife of the Quarter Master of the regiment and four men were buried. On the 18<sup>th</sup>, another man out of the ship was buried. On the 27<sup>th</sup>, two persons, surgeon Hagan and one private were buried. The burials at Drumcannon continued into the following month. On 3 March, one man and one child were buried. Over the next three days, a further five men were buried. On the 7<sup>th</sup>, Mrs Robinson and two privates were buried. The next day, Sergeant Major Watson and two privates were buried. On the 9<sup>th</sup>, one woman was buried. On the 10<sup>th</sup>, and the 11<sup>th</sup>, a further 4 men were buried. On the 12<sup>th</sup>, Lieutenant Veale and two privates were buried. There may have been some confusion as to the identity of the body as Captain McGregor’s name has been crossed out in the original entry and replaced by Veale. Another man was buried on the 13<sup>th</sup> and on the 15<sup>th</sup> four men<sup> </sup>were buried. On the 16th Captain McGregor, Lieutenant Scott, Ensign Hill, Lieutenant Allen of the Royal Navy, two privates and one woman were also buried at Drumcannon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> On 17 March, they began to bury the bodies on the Rabbit Burrows, when thirteen men were buried there. The following day a further three men were buried there. Between the 29<sup>th</sup> and the 31<sup>st</sup>, a further five men and two women were buried there. In April a further four men were buried. On 4 May one man was buried. The final entry was William Baird, Quarter Master, buried on the 28 May. It has been asserted elsewhere that the burials began on the Burrow because Drumcannon graveyard was full. This is hardly the case as the graveyard remained in use into recent times. It is far more likely that the decomposition of the bodies had advanced to such a degree as to render their transport non-viable. Rev Cooke often preformed service over uncovered bodies, at the risk of life and health.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> In total 82 people from the wreck were recorded to be buried in Drumcannon, 10 officers, 43 men, 11 women and 18 children, with a further single officer, 26 men and 2 women buried on the burrow. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In all Cooke recorded that he buried 18 Children, 13 women and 80 men, which if the official total of those lost was correct, leaves 25 children, 20 women and 213 men with their graves in the bay. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What of Major Charles Douglas and Assistant Surgeon Lambe? Their names are included on the memorial stone as being buried in Drumcannon. However, Reverend Cooke while naming all the other officers that were buried omits to mention Douglas and Lambe. It is likely that their bodies were not washed ashore or if so, were found in an unrecognisable state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> The confusion about the burials started all of two days after the first one on the burrows, as a letter to the editor of the Waterford Chronicle related that the greater number of the bodies found were thrown into a hole on the beach;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Sir- The profound horror and dismay I have felt at the account of the Tramore wreck have been deeply increased on hearing, that the greater number of the bodies found were thrown into a hole contiguous to the Rabbit Burrow. As their removal now is utterly impossible, permit me to suggest a plan to ameliorate the last mentioned melancholy circumstance- First, to have the ground regularly consecrated both by Protestant and Catholic Clergymen, and a certain space around this sad depository enclosed with a low wall, a gravelled walk, and the remainder of the ground to be raised in a large mound, rising to the centre, by means of earth, &c. drawn there, which will serve as cover, amply, the lamented bodies, which has not been sufficiently done- in the centre, a handsome obelisk erected, on the pedestal of which the woeful occurrence may be detailed- the entire ground tastefully planted with Laurel, which bears the sea air, with privet, abundance of which can be procured at the Burrow, and other plants. This plan, which can be put into execution at a moderate expense, either by subscription, assistance from government, or both, will render this now horrible spot interesting to Tramore, a pensive walk on a summer’s evening to view it, and also a convenient deposit for the subjects of any future misfortune- but above all it will prove a disposition to perpetuate the deep sense we feel of the disastrous circumstance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> This plan does not appear to have been implemented, as an extract from a letter to the Freeman’s Journal, some twelve years later reported ‘the frightful sight of a quantity of human bones strewn about…. bleached emblems of mortality seen on a barren sand-bank, with the load roaring of the sea below, presented an appalling spectacle…. Most of the bodies were cast on the beach, and carelessly buried on the sand bank…a little above high water mark. The sea, it is said has since made some incursion beyond its usual limits, and exhumed the bones of these brave men….How painful to witness, and how discreditable to the Corporate Body of Waterford to allow, the bones of those to whom their country owed so much to remain so long neglected and disregarded!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On the south side: Lugo, 6th & 7th of January, 1809 Corunna, 16th of January, 1809 Walcheren, August,1809 This monument was erected by Lieut, Colonel Austin, Lieut. Colonel Hoysted and the other surviving officers of the 2nd Battalion of His Majesty's 59th Regiment, as a testimonial of their profound sorrow for the loss of their gallant Brother officers who perished in the wreck of the Sea-Horse Transport in the Bay of Tramore on the 30th day of January 1816: and as a tribute to the heroic & social virtues which adorned their short but useful lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On the east: Vittoria, 21st of June, 1813 St. Sebastian, 31st of August, 1813 Biddasoa, 7th October, 1813. On the 30th day of January, 1816 the Sea-Horse Transport. Capt. Gibbs, was wrecked in Tramore Bay; upon which melancholy occasion, 12 officers and 264 Non-Commissioned Officers & Privates of His Majesty's 2nd Battalion, 59th Regiment, together with Lieut. Allen, R. N., 15 sailors and 71 women and children perished within a mile of the shore. Of the hapless inmates of this ill-fated vessel, only 4 officers and 26 soldiers and seamen were providentially rescued from the raging ocean"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On the north: Nivelle, 10th of November, 1813. Nieve, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th of December, 1813. Bayonne, February & March, 1815. Sacred to the memory of Major Charles Douglas, Capt. James Macgregor, Lt. & Adj. Abraham Dent, Lieut. William Veall, Lieutenant Robert Scott, Lieutenant James Geddes, Lieutenant William Gillespie, Ensign Andrew Ross, Ensign Rowland F Hill, Surgeon James Hagan, Assistant Surgeon Lambe and Quarter-Master W. Baird of the 2nd Battalion 59th Regiment who were lost by the wreck of the Sea-Horse Transport. Your heroic deeds, Brave Warriors! Will never be erased from the page of history and though cypress instead of laurels encircle your temples, your cenotaph is erected in the bosoms of your countrymen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On the west: Waterloo, 18th June, 1815 Cameray, 24th of June, 1815 Surrender of Paris, 6th of July, 1815 The 2nd Battalion of the 59th Regiment commenced their Military Career in the Autumn of 1808 when they accompanied Sir David Baird to Corunna and were conspicuously brave in the arduous campaign under Lieut. General Sir John Moore. They partook of the Expedition to Walcheran. They also bore a distinguished part in the principal Actions that were fought on the Peninsula in 1813 & 1814 under the command of The Illustrious Wellington and finally participated in the renown of the ever-memorable day of Waterloo, and the second surrender of the French capital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> In the churchyard of Tramore Church a neat monument is erected by Lt. Col. Austen, Lt. Col. Hoysted & the survivors of the 2nd Bn. 59th to the memory of their Brother Officers & Soldiers who were lost on this melancholy occasion……<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> The bodies of the Officers which were found & many of those of the men, are interred in the churchyard of Drumcannon church, formerly the parish church of Tramore, but now in ruins, about a mile & a half distant from it. No funerals are yet in the new churchyard of Tramore - some of the bodies which did not come on shore until sometime after are buried in different places. Drumcannon church & a few farm cottages stand on a height about half a mile from the Bay. Mr. Cooke minister of Tramore performed the funeral service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> A decent small farmer close to Drumcannon Church pointed out to me the spot where the officers are interred, viz on the left as entering the churchyard but no mark to point out by name the individuals, most of the men on the right hand as entering. My tears bedewed the monument at Tramore & the churchyard at Drumcannon, where repose the remains of a brother I most dearly loved. I passed a melancholy hour at each.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Mr. Cooke Minister of Tramore read the funeral service on this dreadful occasion, attending every day for that purpose as the bodies were found. I should like to ascertain from him if he knows the exact spot where repose the remains of James in order to mark it by a stone with the name. I regret that I was not aware of the mausoleum being at Drumcannon until my visit that I might have directed it & seen it done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">According to a later inscription, ‘the cenotaph was restored in October 1881 by General Hope Graham C B who as a Lieutenant Colonel commanded the 59<sup>th</sup> regiment for seven years’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Reverend R H Ryland, writing in 1824, stated that, a monument was ordered to be placed over the remains buried in Drumcannon, ‘the work is now finished, but the expense of it being still unpaid, it has not yet been erected…A considerable number of the soldiers were interred in the sand, at the distance of a hundred yards from the sea; it was in agitation to erect a monument over their remains but this has not been accomplished.’<sup> </sup>In fact, Moses Robinson was contracted to build the monument in Tramore churchyard and to place a tombstone over the grave at Drumcannon. Moses was an architect, merchant and building contractor based in Waterford City. He erected the Cenotaph in Tramore, but being unpaid for his work; he refused to erect the tombstone over the grave. The following is the inscription on monumental stone:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Beneath this tomb are deposited the remains of Major Charles </span>Douglas,<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> age 29, Captain Jas McGregor, 21, Lieut and Adjutant Abram Dent, 26, Lieutenants William Veal, 21, Robt Scott, 21, James Geddes, 21, William Gillespie, 19, Ensigns, Andrew Rose, 19, Rowland F Hill, 19, Surgeon Jas Hagan, Assistant Surgeon Lambe, Quarter William Baird, of his Majesty’s Second Battalion, 59th Foot, who perished in the Bay of Tramore, 30th January , 1816, by the wreck of the Sea Horse Transport. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">To their revered memories this testimonial is erected by Lieutenant Colonel Austin, Lieutenant Colonel Hoystead, and the other officers of the battalion, also the monument at the church at Tramore. Returning to their native land where they looked for solace and repose after all the toils and dangers they had endured for the security of the British Empire and the deliverance of Europe, their lives were cut short by the awful dispensation of an all-wise but merciful providence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">But the memory of those gallant achievements in which they bore so distinguished a part under the guidance of the illustrious Wellington will never be forgotten, but shall continue to illuminate the historic page, and animate the heart of Britain to the most remote period of time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The stone lay forgotten in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Moses’s yards in Bolton Street for 43 years,</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> until Moses died on 3 November 1859. From the details of his will, he appears to have remained a bachelor all his life. His sister Mary, a spinster inherited his estate with the stipulation that she had to honour all of his debts. At this time, Mary published a letter, stating that Moses had been unpaid for both of his monuments to the Sea Horse tragedy in Tramore. She further stated that unless the Sea Horse stone was bought from her, that she would have the inscription removed and have the stone used for her brother’s grave. She went so far as having the stone placed outside Kennedy’s Stonecutter yard. The implication was clear. Over a year later, the following notice appeared in the Waterford newspapers:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">A testimonial, in memory of the brave fellows of the 59th Regiment, who perished in the Sea Horse, at Tramore Bay, on 30th January 1816, is to be erected midway between the life-Boat House and the Red House on the race course, exactly opposite where the vessel was wrecked. A public subscription has been already set on foot for the purpose, and the plan has been given by a gentleman in this city gratuitously.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The subscription was raised and the stone was duly purchased and plans implemented for its placement, but not at Drumcannon:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">It is nearly forty-six years since the Seahorse transport, on her voyage from Portugal to England, after the Peninsular Wars, and with a large number of the regiment on board, was wrecked in the Bay of Tramore, and a very large number of lives were lost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">After that sad event a movement was made to erect a suitable monument near the scene of the disaster, and the monumental stone was ordered and procured, and the names of the officers engraved upon it, when the funds fell short, and the stone so engraved remained on the hands of the contractor, and for more than 40 years was neglected and apparently forgotten. On the decease of the contractor this stone was being disposed of for other purposes, when it attracted the notice of some of our citizens, and Mr Butler Hughes kindly consented to act as secretary and collector to a fund to complete the monument, and he corresponded with the present officers of the 59th Regiment. The following letter shows the interest which the gallant 59th felt in the fate of their hapless predecessors:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Captain DeMontmorency, 59th Regiment, presents his compliments to Mr Jas. Butler Hughes, and in acknowledging the receipt of his note of the 10th June last-only received this day in consequence of detention at different addresses-begs to thank him on the part of his brother officers for the trouble he has taken about the tombstone commemorative of the loss of the officers and men of the regiment by the wreck of the Sea Horse in Tramore Bay, the purchase of which they accept with great pleasure, and the tombstone itself they have equal gratification in presenting through Mr Hughes to the local gentleman who have so handsomely offered to place it on a suitable monument on the beach at Tramore and on a spot as near as possible to the scene of the sad disaster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">A post-office order on Waterford, payable to Mr Hughes, sent by Jos. DeMontmorency, is enclosed, with renewed thanks for his kindness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Subscriptions were set on foot, and the sums hereinafter stated were collected. Abraham Denny Esq., who has given us specimens of his architectural tact and skill in the Protestant Hall, and in the Tramore Schoolhouse, very generously furnished the design for the monument, made the contracts and superintended the completion of the work, and the monument which is very tasteful in its completion, is erected on the Strand at Tramore, as near the spot where the Sea Horse was lost as practicable. We regret to learn that it has cost more than the sum raised by subscriptions, and that the hon. Secretary, Mr Hughes and the hon. Architect, Mr Denny, are both out of pocket. The following are the subscribers to the fund, and we hope some other contributions will come in to recoup the advances of the secretary and architect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Wm. Johnson, Mayor; General Roberts (2nd subscription); J. S. Ambrose, John Sparrow; T. B. Prossor, Henry Sargent, Congreve Rogers, John Fanning, Joseph P Mackesy, George baker, Capt. Mansfield, Henry G. Prossor, Dr. John Mackesy, Abraham Denny, Edward Denny, Pierse Kelly, Joseph Coombe, Henry Davis, Edmund Power, J. Butler Hughes, 10s each; John Malcomson, John Jackson, John Phelan, Thomas Walsh, Henry Pope, Jacob Penrose, jun., T. R. Cherry, W. M. Alcock, William M. Reade, Joshua Strangman, Richard Mahony, Hancock Strangman, Henry Ridgway, jun., Henry Denny jun., Samuel Harris, George Morris, Pierce Ronayne, James Henry Hickey, Benjamin Moore, Capt. Glubb, James Delahunty, 5s each.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> In total £15, 15s was raised, enabling the placement of the monument on six small pillars near the three mass graves on the strand.’ An inscription was added, recording its restoration in 1862 by officers, non-commissioned officers and privates of the regiment. Despite his philanthropy, Butler Hughes’s business interests in Waterford failed and he was declared Bankrupt in 1865, having moved to England. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Following a series of severe storms, the monument was removed from the strand in 1912 by Martin J Murphy and erected on the Doneraile Walk, high on the cliffs, overlooking the bay.</span></div>
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Sea Horse was a three masted, square rigged ship of 293 tons burden, built in
Gravesend for the Hudson Bay Company and launched on 30 March 1782. The ship
continued in their employment for ten years, trading with the Native Americans,
after which she was sold to a London ship-owner, employed as a Mediterranean
merchantman and re-launched with letters of mark as a privateer. The ship was
soon captured by French ‘men of war’ in 1795 and carried into Cadiz. She was
then renamed the Principe Fernando and fitted out for a voyage to Lima. The
ship was recaptured in 1800 by British privateers and later sold in Guernsey.
The new owner employed her as a troop transport ship for a couple of years
until peace ‘broke out’ in 1802. The ship was then fitted out as a South Seas
whaler for a couple of years, until war broke out again when she was
re-employed as a troop transport. She remained a troop transport until she was
wrecked in 1816. In my estimation, having traced the majority of her voyages
she journeyed at least 120,000 sea miles 'made good'. For a more detailed description of the ship and a comprehensive chronology of the ship’s voyages, see my article in this year’s issue of Decies, Journal of the Waterford Archaeological & Historical Society.</span></div>
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Ivan Fitzgeraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12707837599657049913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033996839726386649.post-64376838572141444572015-12-03T14:32:00.000-08:002015-12-03T14:52:02.292-08:00Thomas Russell, the Carpenter of The Sea Horse<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
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are mentioned in the contempoary newspapers are those of the first mate John Sullivan from Cork, whose
wife was drowned and the ships carpenter, Thomas Russell, whose unfortunate
family were left destitute:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Russell, the carpenter of the unfortunate Sea Horse transport, lately wrecked
on the coast of Ireland, was among the number that perished, and has left a
most distressed widow (a worthy women) and six children totally destitute. He
was a good husband, a sober, decent man, much respected in his subordinate, but
useful line; he was two years carpenter of the Adam transport, which being paid
off some time ago, he could not get another ship until recently, when he joined
the Sea Horse; during his being unavoidably out of employment, his little
saving were expended (as he always allowed the greater part of his wages for
the support of his wife and children in his absence), and the widow and
children are therefore absolutely penniless.-The donations of those who feel
for the suffers, by such an awful visitation of providence, will be thankfully
received by the widow, at her humble home no 6 Adams-gardens, Rotherhithe; at
Sir Jas Esdaile and Co.’s, Lombard Street; Messrs Merries and Co.’s St James
street; Bar of Lloyd’s Coffee House and Mr J Lachlan, late Agent for the ship,
22, Great Alle Street, Goodman’s Fields.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/Sea%20Horse%20Project%20chapters/On%20Board%20the%20Sea%20Horse.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<br />Ivan Fitzgeraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12707837599657049913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033996839726386649.post-85276418590215513792015-12-01T15:05:00.003-08:002015-12-01T15:09:03.896-08:00Numbers On Board the Sea Horse<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
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board at Ramsgate, on the 24 January, 16 Officers, 287 men, 33 women, and 38
children and a crew 17 in number. There was also a passenger, Lieutenant Allen
of the Royal Navy, which including Gibbs himself, comes to a total of 393
souls. Total losses were reported to be 12 officers, 15 seamen, 71 women and
children as well as the 264 enlisted men, a total of 363. While the numbers
reported to be saved were 4 officers, 23 enlisted men, one of which died
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February clearly related that, ‘the statement of men on board the Seahorse is
not correct-there embarked here 14 officers, 266 men, 33 woman and 34 children.’<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/Sea%20Horse%20Project%20chapters/On%20Board%20the%20Sea%20Horse.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While there can
be little doubt that there were 16 officers on board, the number of enlisted
men, women and children remains open to question. Furthermore, an investigation
into the Regimental Pay List from 25 January 1816 to 24 March 1816 confirm the
deaths of 4 senior enlisted staff, 4 colour sergeants, 1 drum major, 10
sergeants, 14 corporals, 15 drummers and fifers and 197 privates on 30 January
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which died at the wreck of the Lord Melville. Adding the 22 enlisted men that
are listed in the pay list as having survived the wreck of the <i>Sea Horse</i>, the total of the enlisted men
recorded to be on board comes to 265.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/Sea%20Horse%20Project%20chapters/On%20Board%20the%20Sea%20Horse.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> A
figure much closer to the Ramsgate tally; if we take this reckoning as the more
accurate of the two, then the numbers on board amount to 16 officers, 265
enlisted men, 33 woman and 34 children, 18 seamen and one passenger, a sum
total of 367 souls of which 338 were lost. However, if the number of soldiers
on board is incorrect in the official tally, then the number of women and
children is also probably incorrect. Also, Gibbs stated that there were only 17
seamen on board, including himself. The exact figures of those on board and
those lost is unknown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ivan Fitzgeraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12707837599657049913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033996839726386649.post-9414908238868138212015-11-19T14:39:00.003-08:002016-01-20T13:22:39.523-08:00The Last Voyage of the Sea Horse<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
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on the morning of the 25 January, would have presented a bustling scene as the
troops of the 59th and 62nd regiments, marched down the Military Road to the
harbour to embark on their vessels for their journey to Cork.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> <a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/Sea%20Horse%20Project%20chapters/3%20The%20Last%20Voyage%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></a></span> The
majority of the 59th boarded the <i>Sea
Horse,</i> Master James Gibbs, a ship registered in <i>Lloyds</i> as having a burthen of 295 tons, with a crew of 17.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/Sea%20Horse%20Project%20chapters/3%20The%20Last%20Voyage%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
She reportedly took on board five companies of the 59th regiment, consisting of
16 officers and 287 men, 33 women and 38 children and a young naval officer, travelling
to meet his ship the <i>Tonnant</i>, a total
of 393 persons.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/Sea%20Horse%20Project%20chapters/3%20The%20Last%20Voyage%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
The remainder of the regiment embarked on the <i>Lord Melville,</i> Master Thomas Arman, a ship with a burden of 351
tons. She reportedly, took on board 3 captains, 8 Lieutenants, 3 ensigns, 260
rank and file, 2 servants, 33 women and 30 children, a total of 339 of the 59<sup>th</sup>
Regiment and part of the 62nd Regiment, consisting of a Colonel, 1 Captain, 2
Lieutenants, 3 Ensigns, 75 rank and file, 1 servant, 6 women and 2 children, a
total of 50.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/Sea%20Horse%20Project%20chapters/3%20The%20Last%20Voyage%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
The <i>William Pitt</i>, Master G Proctor,
the largest vessel of the three, with a burden of 418 tons, took on 18 officers
and 406 men of the 62nd Regiment, the remainder of that regiment, 6 officers
and 80 men, embarking on the <i>Hound, </i>Master
Chapman, a three year old ship, with of 324 ton burden and an A1
classification.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/Sea%20Horse%20Project%20chapters/3%20The%20Last%20Voyage%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jan. 25. - Sailed the William Pitt, Lord Melville and Sea Horse transports,
having on board the 2d battalions of the 59<sup>th</sup> and 62d regiments for
Ireland; they are the finest transports we have had in this harbour for a
length of time past. The Duncombe and Hound transports are still here, waiting
the arrival of either the 14<sup>th</sup> or 44<sup>th</sup> regiments, also
destined for Ireland. The above regiments were intended to have been embarked
at Dover, but the transports taking them on board were considered to draw too
much water for that port. Sailed the Good Statesman transport for Plymouth;
Catherine transport for Ostend; and Exchange transport for Calais, with several
freight vessels, to bring over the Blues and 3d Dragoon Guards; 5 or 6
transports remain, taking in the heavy baggage of different regiments, for
hull, London and Portsmouth. Upwards of 100 sail of merchant vessels of
different descriptions have got to the sea this tide, bound to the Westward.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/Sea%20Horse%20Project%20chapters/3%20The%20Last%20Voyage%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Henry Moses, Ramsgate 1816<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sailed on 25 January, the three transports came to anchor in the Downs,
an area of sea, near the English Channel off the East Kent coast, awaiting
the right wind for the voyage. Here they
were joined by the <i>Boadicea</i>, <i>Fox,</i> <i>Promise
</i>and <i>Fancy,</i> <i>Martin</i>, <i>Mariner </i>2nd, <i>Promise, Betsy, Lord Cawdor, Patriot,
Elizabeth</i>, <i>Mariner </i>3rd, <i>Triton </i>and <i>William</i> troop transports that sailed from Dover on the 26 January
bound for Ireland, according to Naval Intelligence.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/Sea%20Horse%20Project%20chapters/3%20The%20Last%20Voyage%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
The <i>Boadicea</i> and <i>Fox </i>were transporting the 82nd regiment to Cork, while the other
ships were transporting the 16th and 35th regiments and the 2nd Garrison
Battalion. The <i>Harmony</i>, <i>John</i> and <i>Eleanor</i> transports also sailed to Plymouth: the <i>Britannia </i>for Ostend and the <i>Ulysses</i> and <i>Britannia</i> transports with troops to Calais. Taken in tandem, with
the transports, voyaging from Portsmouth and Plymouth, an estimate of 10,000
troops under sail, bound for Ireland, would be on the conservative side. The
ships parted company as they made their way through the channel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> James Gibbs, master of the <i>Sea Horse</i> and Thomas Arman, master of
the Lord Melville, both left correspondence describing their voyage. According
to Gibbs, about 11am on the morning of 26 January, the <i>Sea Horse</i> weighed anchor, and sailed with light breezes from the N.
N. W. and by about midnight was off Dungeness, a headland further along the
coast of Kent on which a 115 ft. high lighthouse was built in 1792 by
Samuel Wyatt. At about midnight, they spotted the Portland Lights to the N. E.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/Sea%20Horse%20Project%20chapters/3%20The%20Last%20Voyage%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> On Sunday, 28 January they passed Start
Point, with the breeze coming from the N.N.E. They then altered course in the
afternoon as they passed Lizard Point at 5 o’clock and at 11 o’clock they passed the Longships Lighthouse, Lands’
End, 1 ½ nautical miles off. At midnight, it bore N.N.E., 8 miles away.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> From here they sailed into the
Irish Sea and set a course for Cork.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> On the morning of 29 January, there was a
fine strong breeze </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">coming
from the S.S.E., a favourable wind direction in which to sail to Cork. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">But at noon this was getting much
stronger.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As Gibbs’s account states, the <i>Sea Horse</i> made landfall at Ballycotton
Island at 4pm with the rising wind still coming from the S.S.E. From this time
onwards, it was to be ‘a constant and awful struggle with the conflicting
elements’. The mate, John Sullivan, a Cork man, well acquainted with the coast,
then went up the forerigging to look at the land, but fell down on the
forecastle, and broke both his legs and arms, and unable to speak, died in the
arms of his wife, almost three hours later.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/Sea%20Horse%20Project%20chapters/3%20The%20Last%20Voyage%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (It has been
stated that he may have been the only one on board that was well acquainted
with the coast. However, this is highly unlikely, as transport vessels
regularly shipped troops to and from Ireland via Cork and Waterford, the <i>Sea Horse</i> herself having been surveyed
in Cork in 1813.)</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gibbs
then altered his course, as the gale grew, making westward for Kinsale Light House,
intending to alter course and run along the land to the entrance to Cork Harbour
once it was sighted. However not having not seen the light after sailing for
two hours, doubts set in and he became unwilling to proceed any further, as the
weather was so thick and hazy. With the most tremendous sea running, he decided
to take in the top sails and hauled close to the wind, heading in a W.S.W.
direction out to sea. According to Thomas Redding, a seaman on board, ‘In
consequence of the affecting loss of his chief mate, Captain Gibbs was very
greatly annoyed during the night, and appeared to have lost much of that
self-command so essentially necessary to the safety of the vessel, passengers,
and crew’.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/Sea%20Horse%20Project%20chapters/3%20The%20Last%20Voyage%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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8pm, the ship got blown off course and spent most of the night on another
heading of S.E., the wind coming from the S.S.W. which was now on their
starboard bow. The tide was setting towards the land and with a large swell
they were being pushed N.E. towards the lee shore, an unadvisable course of
action. According to Redding, he spotted a ‘fogbank or the land’ at about 4
o’clock in the morning and reported it to the second mate, Wilson, who first
derided the idea, but then called the Captain, ‘who had been sitting for some
hours on the companion, apparently lost in a reverie’. They then laughed at his
report.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/Sea%20Horse%20Project%20chapters/3%20The%20Last%20Voyage%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse.docx#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span>
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still drifting in an easterly direction when at five in the morning, 30 January,
they sighted Minehead which was inside them to leeward, wind still coming from
the S.S.W., they then let a reef out of the topsails and set the
mainsail-blowing very hard in order to help get away from the land, but the
wind was so strong that about 10.30am, it broke the fore topmast and it went
over the side. A seaman who was in the foretop had his back and thigh broken. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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direction of Waterford, when, about an hour later, just after the wreck of the
fore topmast was cleared, the mainsail then split to ribbons. By this time,
Gibbs had realised his mistake, and was desperate to get out at sea, away from
the lee shore, but this was not possible with the damage to the masts and the
ship not responding to the steering helm. The raging sea was sending them to
the shore so fast, that even though they spotted the Hook Light House under the
lee bow, they could not weather Brownstown Head. They took in all sail and
anchored under the head in seven fathoms of water, using both anchors, they let
out 300 fathoms of cable to try and hold the vessel. <a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/Sea%20Horse%20Project%20chapters/3%20The%20Last%20Voyage%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse.docx#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[12]</span><!--[endif]--></a> The cables were
leading straight out in front of her, turning her bow to the sea, and her stern
towards the shore, as the waves continued breaking over them. At about 12am,
the anchors dragged, as the sea bottom was probably just sand. The wind and sea
were still increasing, with huge waves crashing over the ship from stem to
stern (from the front to the back of the
ship).<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/Sea%20Horse%20Project%20chapters/3%20The%20Last%20Voyage%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse.docx#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cut away the mizzen and main masts; all the boats connected to the masts were now
washed away. As the ship struck a second time, the rudder, which was, by now of
little use, broke off and the sternpost was knocked in. Redding stated that
about fifty soldiers had rushed into the quarter-boats, to try and save
themselves. However, the boats were rigged to the mizzenmast which was being
cut down and were about to go overboard. They were ordered to leave the boats,
but refused to obey orders and were dashed into the sea and drowned. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the ship and <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">about an hour later, s</span>he split in two by the main hatchway. All
the people on board were clinging to different parts of the wreck. According to
Gibbs, there was not the least disturbance among the women. Mrs Baird was
trying to comfort her two daughters in the great cabin, while a Serjeant’s wife
huddled between decks with her three children. The other women were heard
pleading with their husbands to die with them, most of them uttering prayers. However,
Redding paints a more realistic scene, with women screaming for their husbands
and personal preservation coming to the foremost of almost everyone’s minds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">After the ship
broke in two, all but about 30 people that were left clinging to the
forerigging were washed off. According to Gibbs, about 60 people reached the
shore, but for the want of assistance only 4 officers, 25 soldiers, two of whom
are died shortly afterwards, and two seamen and himself were saved. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hunt, of Tramore, and his man, Mr. Duckett, jun. and two countrymen, one named
Kirwan, were the persons who contributed most to save the lives of the
unfortunate people. To the indefatigable exertions of Mr. Hunt, in getting us
up to the cottage at the Rabbit-burrow, and sending for spirits to his own
house, and lighting large fires for our accommodation, we are principally
indebted for our lives.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/History/The%20Sea%20Horse/Sea%20Horse%20Project%20chapters/3%20The%20Last%20Voyage%20of%20the%20Sea%20Horse.docx#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title=""><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[14]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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James </span><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%; padding: 0cm;">Acland, </span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;">Enemy of Corporate Despots, Memoirs
and Correspodences of a Ghost, </span></i><i><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%; padding: 0cm;">Redding’s
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Ivan Fitzgeraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12707837599657049913noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033996839726386649.post-61989702328686605232015-11-14T03:11:00.002-08:002016-01-16T13:24:43.178-08:00Freemans Journal 30 September 1828<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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as the best bathing place on the south east coast of Ireland. Its contiguity to
Waterford gives it great advantages; but its invaluable superiority over every
other bathing place I have seen, consists of its strand, which, when the tide
is full out, leaves a space of between three and four miles in length of clear
and compact sand, which may be travelled over by any vehicle. Tramore bay is of
considerable extent, but exceedingly dangerous.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To any vessel coming
near it with a strong south-east wind it is fatal, of which the history of this
little place furnishes a most melancholy instance. A few mornings since I took
an early walk to explore a large amount of sand, the accumulation of ages,
situate at the extremity of the beach. My attention was arrested by the
frightful sight of a quantity of human bones strewn about me. These bleached
emblems of mortality seen on a barren sand-bank, with the load roaring of the
sea below, presented an appalling spectacle, and left the mind to a thousand
conjectures of the cause which led to such a scene.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Doubting whether to
attribute it to deadly contest with Smugglers, who once carried on a
considerable traffic in this bay, many of whom might have been shot, and
unceremoniously thrown under the surface of the sand, or to a wreck, on my
return home I made inquiry, and was asked if I had never heard of the <i>Sea Horse </i>Transport, which I confess I
never had. My informant then gave me a detail of that awful calamity. The <i>Sea Horse</i> Transport was bound from Liverpool
for Cork, and had on board a large portion of the 2<sup>nd</sup> battalion of
the 59<sup>th</sup> regiment. On the 30th January, 1816, it was driven into the
Bay Tramore by a storm, and within a mile of the shore was wrecked in the
presence of hundreds of spectators, who from the violence of the storm were
unable to render any assistance. By this dreadful visitation perished 12
officers, 264 privates and non-commissioned officers, 15 sailors and 71 women
and children! Only four officers and 26 men were saved. Most of the bodies were
cast on the beach, and carelessly buried on the sand bank to which I have
alluded, a little above high water mark. The sea, it is said has since made
some incursion beyond its usual limits, and exhumed the bones of these brave
men. The surviving officers erected a monument in the church yard to their
companions in arms, who perished in this melancholy catastrophe. This regiment
was one of the most distinguished in the service. It was engaged in the
memorable battles of Corunna with Sir John Moore, Vittoria, St. Sebastian,
Bidassoa, Bayonne, Waterloo, Cambray, and at the second surrender of Paris. How
painful to witness, and how discreditable to the Corporate Body of Waterford to
allow, the bones of those to whom their country owed so much to remain so long
neglected and disregarded!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ivan Fitzgeraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12707837599657049913noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033996839726386649.post-26618143931811566862015-11-13T04:28:00.001-08:002016-06-29T07:26:22.197-07:00A storm, with an anchored ship in distress off rocky coast<a href="http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/100731.html?_ga=1.246660482.769758152.1447417638#.VkXXWx2xT4o.blogger">A storm, with an anchored ship in distress off rocky coast</a>: Pocock, NicholasIvan Fitzgeraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12707837599657049913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033996839726386649.post-91294483852039317442015-11-12T12:19:00.000-08:002015-11-12T12:19:05.712-08:00Waterford Mirror, 3 February 1816.<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Within memory, so melancholy a shipwreck had not happened on this coast as which occurred on Tuesday at Tramore. The Seahorse Transport, James Gibbs, Master, a ship of 350 tons, from Ramsgate for Cork, with a large part of the 59th Regiment on board, found herself on this morning locked between the heads of Tramore Bay, the wind blowing strong from S. S. E.. Her mizzen mast was swept away, and she worked hard to weather Brownstown Head, with a view of making the harbour. In vain; about one o’clock nearly at low water, when assistance was particularly impractical, she struck nearly at the middle of that extensive strand, and in a few minutes, went to pieces. From that moment, Tramore Strand, the delight of summer visitors, presented a calamitous picture of mortality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Notwithstanding the humanity and activity of John Walsh Esq, Coast Surveyor, of Michael Kennedy, Esq, agent to the Underwriters, and of several others, few comparatively have been saved of the great number that were on board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">LOST:- Major Douglas; Capt. McGregor; Surgeon Hagan; Assistant Surgeon Lambe; Lieutenants Dent, (Adjutant), Veale, Geddies, Scott, and Gillespie; Ensigns Ross, and Hill; Quarter Master Baird; and Mr Allen, of the Navy (Purser).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Another instance of shipwreck, but far less disastrous, occurred upon Tramore Strand, on Wednesday, near the bathing place. About noon the brig, Apollonia, of Caernarvon, J. Parry, Master, bound from London to Cork with a general cargo, was stranded, and in a short time, went to pieces- crew saved. A great part of the vessel saved, and more expected, but all in rather a perishable condition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We have received the following letters from friends, to whom we beg to return our warmest thanks;-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yesterday presented a melancholy sight near this- a transport had been seen for a considerable time approaching the harbour, and at length having crossed it to anchor near the shore within the opposite land, her distressed and dangerous situation being evident, crowds gathered from Tramore and the adjoining country on the beach. After a short period, her anchors having dragged, she drifted to the beach and having struck in a tremendous surf- unspeakable horror soon followed. The ship been soon broken by the dreadful waves that assailed her, the shore became scattered with dead bodies, a few struggling survivors, planks, cordage and every species of wreck. Much exertion was made by several spirited individuals, but particularly by Mr Hunt of Tramore, who was instrumental in saving many. The severity of the day and the disadvantage of an ebb instead of a flood tide added greatly to the calamity. Benumbed with cold and overwhelmed by criminal waves, the poor sufferers, fell speedy victims to their deplorable fate; a great number of women and children were on board- not one escaped. About half the 59th Regiment had embarked in this transport at Deal, their number three hundred and upwards and of them sixteen were Officers. About 25 (including four officers) have been saved. The Regiment was coming from France, and had shared in the glories of Waterloo. Brave men, companions in arms, and dear friends stood on the deck-looked at each other- each expected his own fate and hoped for his friend’s safety- wave after wave thundered. Major Douglas, Captains, Lieutenants, whose names I have not yet learned, were swept away, never to meet their friends and social home, never to battle another time, the vain spirit of France. Women embraced their husbands, bade them farewell and died calmly. Their heroism softened the pangs of men who saw- whose brave hearts bled and could not relieve them! Children took leave of their parents, and rising above the weakness of their age wept not. The Quarter Master’s Lady behaved with great firmness- remained with her children in the cabin- said to an Officer “It is the will of Heaven,” and was seen no more. The wife of a private said “Will you die with me and your child? But you may escape and this may be of use,” and gave him her pocket with a sum of money and she took out her earrings and put them in it. Her self and child were lost. The survivor, more wretched than they, lives to tell the tale, as tears mask his manly face. The Captain of the Transport was saved; the mate fell from the mast early in the day, and was nearly killed and quite disabled. This probably occasioned the deplorable loss as he was well acquainted with the coast. Lieut. Allen, a young officer of the navy, and of great merit, (coming to Ireland), directed the ship for some time with boldness and skill; he too was swept away. Above 350 persons have perished. A great quantity of valuable things is lost, and the vessel shattered into 1000 fragments, strews two or three miles of the coast. Lieuts MacPhearson, Hartford and Cowper and Ensign Seward, survive of the Officers, all much bruised and ill, but Mr Cowper the most severely; he now lies extremely ill at Tramore. The night of the calamity a cottager and his wife, near the fatal spot, showed every tenderness to the miserable victims. But for their humble and lonely dwelling, so many had not now lived to tell this tale. To the honour of Irish character they gave their only bed to two wounded and benumbed Officers, and lodged and comforted all the privates that were too ill to move during the night. Some reward is surely due from persons in authority to this conduct. The man’s name is Dunn. Dead bodies are now hourly throwing in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This day one dead officer has been cast on shore; his name is Dent. Thirty two bodies were yesterday buried in one grave, men women and children. My pen recoils- my heart trembles as I write! Brave warriors! Companions of Wellington! And liberators of the world! Was this your hoped return? Your laurels waved in triumph as you left France!- now thet wither on the lonely shore. How many an affectionate heart throbs- how many an eye fills at the hope of your return! But sorrow shall fill the warriors home and memory long bewail the horrors of the evening of the 30th January 1816! What must the immortal Wellington feel at hearing of this fatal loss? He whose glories brightened, as the tears fell for the heroes who fell around him? I should hope that a monument may be erected for the Officers who have perished. The affecting record may simply record their deaths, and their return from France after a war so gloriously ended. I should hope, pensions to the privates, or some handsome reward, and promotion to the surviving Officers may follow. I am truly sorry to add, that another vessel was wrecked here yesterday. She was a brig with a cargo of tea, &c, &c. The crew were saved. I am Sir&co, &c<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On Tuesday evening last, two vessels were observed to be embayed between the Old Head of Kinsale and the Seven Heads, the wind blowing a gale from the S. E. they used every exertion and adopted every expedient, to weather the old Head, in vain; the peril of their situation increased every moment, and, towards evening, an account was brought to Kinsale, that the ship would, in a short time, be on shore, and that the brig had dropped her anchors, in the hope of riding out the gale. On the receipt of this distressing communication, Collector Meade, with a decision and promptness equally creditable to him as a public officer and a man of humanity, ordered an Officer’s party of the Limerick Militia, under the direction of Mr. Pratt, the Port Surveyor, to the Old Head, to afford every assistance and protection in their power to those unfortunate vessels. Mr. Spifler Newman, a respectable Gentleman of Kinsale, who holds a Revenue situation, generously volunteered his services, notwithstanding that he laboured under indisposition and, although the scene of the apprehended calamity was altogether out of his district, and the range of his official duty, he obeyed the call of humanity, and accompanied Mr. Pratt and the military to the Old head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They had to cross the Ferry of Kinsale, and then march 5 or 6 miles through bye roads, to get to their destination, when they arrived there, they found that the ship had been driven ashore among the rocks- that, shortly after she struck, her boat had been launched and manned with five men- that two Officers and two Ladies, supposed to be their wives, an Assistant Surgeon, a Sergeant, his wife and child, had got into her, in the hope of gaining the shore- that, in a few minutes, she was struck by a wave and swamped; and, melancholy to relate, every soul perished, with the exception of one of the seamen, who reached the land scarcely alive. In a short time, the body of one of the Ladies was washed on shore, and although her name was sufficiently indicated by some papers found in her pockets, we forbear to mention it for the present, from obvious motives of caution, and the possibility of mistake. All the rest of the people of the ship remained in her; at low water, in the course of the night, she was left nearly dry; and at about one or two o’clock they succeeded, under Divine providence in getting safely to land, to the number of about 400 souls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Near to the wreck was situated a rock, somewhat elevated above the surface of the water, and upon this were seen about eighty or ninety poor human creature who had scrambled to it from the vessel, and were still alive. The people from the shore communicated to them as well as they could, that their only chance of safety was in remaining where they were until low water; but, either through impatience of the misery of their situation, or from the impulse of despair, near 30 of them plunged into the sea, and endeavoured to gain the shore, but in vain, as most of them perished in the attempt. About 50 remained on the rock until low water, and were all saved. We have not yet been able to learn the name of the brig; she was a transport, and had a detachment of the 82nd on board, bound for Cork.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The following melancholy details of the loss of two Transports off the Old Head of Kinsale, has been communicated by a Gentleman of that town, who had an opportunity of learning the dreadful particulars stated. No later intelligence has been yet received, though it is momentarily expected.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The loss of these vessels is accompanied with the afflicting further information, that they were full of troops, consisting of the 59<sup>th</sup> and 62th regiments, and it is added, in the accounts which have reached us, a detachment of the 82<sup>nd</sup>. The first information of the loss of the two former vessels reached this city yesterday, and it would be difficult to describe the sensations it created among all persons, at the melancholy fate of so many gallant men, who, after having survived all the perils of war, thus met their deaths within sight of a land where an affectionate and hospitable reception awaited them; and it may be easily supposed ,that the public regret was not lessoned when it became known, that numerous females, the wives of these poor fellows, and their companions through many a former danger, with their numerous children, shared their melancholy fate. Nothing official has yet been received relative to this disastrous event; the officers who have survived have been directed from headquarters here to transmit the detail of the loss as soon as it can possibly be made out, but at upon this day it had not arrived. In the meantime the following particulars are furnished by an intelligent Gentleman from Kinsale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> On Tuesday evening last, two vessels were observed to be embayed between the Old Head of Kinsale and the Seven Heads, the wind blowing a gale from the S. E. they used every exertion and adopted every expedient, to weather the old Head, in vain; the peril of their situation increased every moment, and, towards evening, an account was brought to Kinsale, that the ship would, in a short time, be on shore, and that the brig had dropped her anchors, in the hope of riding out the gale. On the receipt of this distressing communication, Collector Meade, with a decision and promptness equally creditable to him as a public officer and a man of humanity, ordered an Officer’s party of the Limerick Militia, under the direction of Mr. Pratt, the Port Surveyor, to the Old Head, to afford every assistance and protection in their power to those unfortunate vessels. Mr. Spifler Newman, a respectable Gentleman of Kinsale, who holds a Revenue situation, generously volunteered his services, notwithstanding that he laboured under indisposition and, although the scene of the apprehended calamity was altogether out of his district, and the range of his official duty, he obeyed the call of humanity, and accompanied Mr. Pratt and the military to the Old head. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> They had to cross the Ferry of Kinsale, and then march 5 or 6 miles through bye roads, to get to their destination, when they arrived there, they found that the ship had been driven ashore among the rocks- that, shortly after she struck, her boat had been launched and manned with five men- that two Officers and two Ladies, supposed to be their wives, an Assistant Surgeon, a Sergeant, his wife and child, had got into her, in the hope of gaining the shore- that, in a few minutes, she was struck by a wave and swamped; and, melancholy to relate, every soul perished, with the exception of one of the seamen, who reached the land scarcely alive. In a short time, the body of one of the Ladies was washed on shore, and although her name was sufficiently indicated by some papers found in her pockets, we forbear to mention it for the present, from obvious motives of caution, and the possibility of mistake. All the rest of the people of the ship remained in her; at low water, in the course of the night, she was left nearly dry; and at about one or two o’clock they succeeded, under Divine providence in getting safely to land, to the number of about 400 souls. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The ship was we understand a Transport, called the Lord Melville, with a detachment of the 59<sup>th</sup> and 62th Regts on board, bound for Cork. At the commencement of the night, the brig being at anchor, and farther off shore, had to all appearance much greater chance of escape than the ship.- she was distinctly seen by the Revenue officers and military party, with a light at her top mast till after midnight. The light and vessel then disappeared altogether. It still blew a tremendous gale of wind right on the shore, the sea ran mountains high, the rain poured down in torrents, and the night was pitch dark. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Under these circumstances, the most gloomy apprehensions for the fate of the brig were entertained by the party from Kinsale. When the morning dawned, these apprehensions seemed but too well grounded, as the brig had disappeared altogether. However, after a diligent search for some time along the shore, the fragments of her were discovered among the rocks, which lie between the two strands of Garrett’s Town, and where she had been driven after parting her anchors in the night. Upon approaching the wreck, a most heartrending scene of misery, desolation and death, presented itself to the view. The vessel seemed to be a confused mass of timber, planks and boards, broken to pieces, and intermixed with piles of dead bodies, men, women, and children!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Near to the wreck was situated a rock, somewhat elevated above the surface of the water, and upon this were seen about eighty or ninety poor human creature who had scrambled to it from the vessel, and were still alive. The people from the shore communicated to them as well as they could, that their only chance of safety was in remaining where they were until low water; but, either through impatience of the misery of their situation, or from the impulse of despair, near 30 of them plunged into the sea, and endeavoured to gain the shore, but in vain, as most of them perished in the attempt. About 50 remained on the rock until low water, and were all saved. We have not yet been able to learn the name of the brig; she was a transport, and had a detachment of the 82<sup>nd</sup> on board, bound for Cork. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> We have had different accounts of the number of the detachment; the Kinsale accounts make it very considerable, and other accounts, which deserve some consideration, being from persons connected with the regiment, making it much less.- For the present, while there is a possibility of mistake, we shall abstain from mentioning the particulars of either estimate. Suffice to say, that only fifty or sixty escaped from the brig. We have heard the name of one of the Officers of the 82<sup>nd</sup> who was saved- we announce it with great pleasure, for the relief of his family and friends, Lieut. Starkey. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Yesterday morning the Sovereign of Kinsale Governor Browne and Collector Meade were most actively employed in procuring clothing provisions and medical assistance for the poor surviving sufferers. As soon as they made the necessary arrangements, they repaired in person to the wrecks, and from the cordial co-operation which they received from the inhabitants of the town, of all ranks and description, they have no doubt been enabled to afford the most timely and effectual relief. The brig has gone to pieces, and it was imagined, that the ship would share the same fate in the course of last night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> In addition to the above we have to lay before our readers another most distressing account of a similar nature, but which we trust will not be found so disastrous as the letter states, which was received here this morning from Waterford. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> I beg leave to inform you, I had an Express at 5 o’clock yesterday evening, from the lieutenant at the signal tower at the Old Head, stating that a large ship and a brig were embayed in Courtmasherry Bay, and he feared from the desperate of the weather that they may be ashore; and in half an hour after, I had an account to say, that the ship was on shore near Garretstown Strand, and that the brig was lying to an anchor in the bay; that they were transports from England, with part of the 59<sup>th</sup> and 62<sup>nd</sup> and, I believe the 82<sup>nd</sup> regts on board; and that a boat coming from the ship to the shore, with two Officers, two Officer’s wives, a child and some others were upset, and all drowned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> I lost no time in applying to the commanding Officer here, for a party of twenty men and an Officer, and although the night was most desperate and dark, yet with great difficulty, I sent the party across the ferry here, at ten o’clock with the Port Surveyor, Mr Pratt, the Coast Officer, Mr Newman, and some more Revenue Officers, to be ready to give every assistance possible both to protect the vessel and save the lives of those on board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> An Express has just returned to me, with an account, that all of the soldiers and everyone on board the large ship, got on shore safe (except those I mentioned that were lost in the boat) at low water, about one o’clock this morning; but I am sorry to say, the brig parted from her anchors about two o’clock and swept on shore, and almost everyone on board has been lost; there are a few of them that got to the shore with broken limbs, and the whole is one of the most melancholy sights that ever happened on this coast, the strand being covered with dead bodies. The name of the ship was the Lord Melville and had six companies of the 59<sup>th</sup> and two of the 62<sup>nd</sup>, and the wives of Captains A Mancor and Fawson, both of the 59<sup>th</sup>, are the names, I understand, of those that were drowned. The brig had part of the 82<sup>nd</sup> on board from Dover. This information has been given me from a corporal of the 59<sup>th</sup>, who has just come from the wreck. I have this moment sent an express to the Commander of the Fort, Lord Forbes, at Cork, with a particular account of this melancholy business, and I have sent another detachment of twenty men to assist in every way possible in preserving the arms and everything belonging to the vessel- and the Governor of the Fort, the Sovereign, and most of the principal gentlemen of this town are endeavouring to get there, to afford every assistance possible, and I am happy to have it in my power to tell you that the country people have as yet behaved in the most exemplary manner, and afforded every assistance in their power to the unfortunate sufferers. I have also sent every Surgeon; I could get in this town, to render assistance to those that have broken limbs, as some of them had the misfortune to have suffered this way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> I am just setting out, myself, for the wreck, to give every direction and assistance in my power; and anything further that occurs shall be communicated to you by tomorrows post, by,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> We lay before our readers letters from Colonel Darley, and Collector Meade, of Kinsale, to Lord Forbes, containing official accounts of the disastrous occurrences that have taken place near Kinsale. The loss of lives, though lamentably great, falls short of the exaggerated statement that public anxiety first circulated. Too much praise cannot be bestowed on the spirited and benevolent exertions of the Collector of Kinsale, throughout this arduous business; and it would be unjust to withhold the highest tribute of applause from the skill and activity displayed by lieutenant Harty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My Lord, I have the honour of availing myself of the earliest opportunity that has been allowed me since the disaster of our unfortunate ship, the Lord Melville, to report to your lordship the arrival of his Majesty’s troops that were embarked on board her under my command, accounting for the casualties that occurred by the wreck, and a brief statement of the misfortune. Upon making the land, about 11 o’clock AM on 31<sup>st</sup> ult (having laid to the previous night) it blowing nearly a gale of wind, a heavy sea running, and the atmosphere so thick and hazy, that, upon discerning the land, we found ourselves nearly embayed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The master bore up to weather what was universally supposed the entrance into Cove, but which proved to be the Old Head of Kinsale, and after every assertion to weather that point, and run the ship into Kinsale harbour, he was compelled to bear away for some friendly looking strand upon which he might run up the vessel, and await the going out of the tide, in the hope of saving the lives of so many souls, very justly not holding in competition the ultimate security of the ship. In endeavouring most ardently to affect this object; the vessel was irrevocably driven upon a bed of rocks by the violence of the gale, distant from between three and four hundred yards from the shore, the tide then making in. No time was lost in passing a rope from the ship to the shore, and cutting away the fore and main masts, to ease the tremendous shocks of the ship against the rocks, by which her bottom was almost immediately stove in, and several feet of water in her cabin. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> At this time, it was about three 0’clock PM, our situation becoming most critical, by the violence of the sea breaking into the cabin and over the stern, together with her continual dashing against the rocks, a boat was manned for the ladies on board, to endeavour making the shore: two Officer’s wives, with their servants, soldiers of the 59<sup>th</sup> regiment, six of the crew, together with Captain Radford, of the 62<sup>nd</sup> Regiment (who was in a week state of health), got into the boat, and made for the shore; but; distressing to add, they had not reached half way, when the boat was swamped, and, with the exception of one sailor, all perished.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Nothing possibly remained for those on board but to await, with hope of preservation, the falling of the tide, when, should the vessel keep together, it was determined to lash a long spar from the bow to the nearest dry rock, and pass every person over it, to make good their way across a range of rocks that extended to the shore. Between ten and eleven o’clock, the attempt appeared practicable, and to my greatest satisfaction, succeeded beyond our utmost hopes. After the lapse of some time, every individual having happily descended from the ship, without any accident, Lieut. Harty, of the neighbouring signal station, with a party of men, after the most praise worthy exertions, had arrange those men along the rocks, with lighted sticks, affording the most essential assistance, and thereby preventing the loss of the lives of several who would otherwise have certainly fallen into the many large recesses of deep water that encompassed and obstructed our progress to the main land, and over which the breakers occasionally washed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Every person having at last safely reached the shore, Lieutenant Harty, with equal promptitude, had arrange for their being distributed amongst the neighbouring cabins, and they were marched off accordingly, to return early next morning, for the purpose of endeavouring to get out the arms and accoutrements; nothing, however, could possibly be affected towards that end by the early return of the tide, and consequent impossibility of access to the ship.. The few men and some officers that were enabled to return on board, reported to me the near total destruction of all the baggage, from the sea it was swimming in, and the pillaging that took place after the troops were got on shore. Finding the men much in need of repose, and the day advancing, I directed their proceeding to Kinsale, leaving two officers’ parties from the 59<sup>th</sup> and 62th regiments to remain in protection of the ship, conjointly with a party from the Limerick Militia, and with instructions to commence early next morning (1<sup>st</sup> Feb), in getting from on board, the arms and accoutrements. I have since dispatched a stronger relief to those parties and shall continue using every exertion until I shall succeed in securing, I hope as many stand of arms, &c as it is possible, which I shall have the honour of reporting for your Lordships information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> I beg leave to express to your Lordship the very great support and active assistance that have been afforded by Governor Browne, Collector Meade, and the Magistrates and Gentlemen of Kinsale. I am happy in concluding this, my Lord, by a report this moment received, that all the arms and accoutrements have been safely landed and will arrive here this evening. The troops have undergone much fatigue, and are making without necessaries; I therefore hope time may be given to recover themselves and get into some order.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">From the brig that has been wrecked (Boadicea) with part of the 82<sup>nd</sup> regiment on board, I understand that out of 280, only 50 have been saved and two officers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Embarked on board the Lord Melville Transport, of the 2<sup>nd</sup> battalion 62<sup>nd</sup> Regiment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lieutenant Colonel Darley, Capt Radford, Lieutenant Mahon, Lieutenant Whitfield, Ensigns Whitney and Sweeney.- Lost captain Radford. Total one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Captain Fuller, Captain Mancor, Captain Fawson, Lieutenants Duncan, Pitman, Hill, O’Hara, Edwards, Robertson, Carmichael, Assistant Surgeon Colvin, Ensigns Stewart, Ward and Proctor. Lost, Mrs Mancor, wife of Captain Mancor, Mrs Fawson, wjfe of Captain Fawson, Mrs Weld, wife of Serjeant Weld, Mary Weld, her daughter.- Privates, John Wheatly and Richard Mooney. Total 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> My Lord- As an opportunity offers going to Cork, I write to acquaint you, that, on my return from the wreck last night, I had the honour to receive your letter of yesterday, and as you may be anxious to know particulars, I beg to acquaint you, that every person on board the Lord Melville transport, of the 59<sup>th</sup> and 62<sup>nd</sup> Regiments, got safe on shore, at low water, except the eleven I mentioned to you that were upset in a boat coming from her, and were drowned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The other vessel was the Brig Boadicea, No 561, J. Gibson, Master; had on board the following of the 82<sup>nd</sup> Regiment, viz. :-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And I should suppose, near eighty privates, but it is impossible as yet to be exact as to the numbers, as several of them that were bruised and hurt, are in the cabins about the place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The brig Boadicea lies in pieces on the rocks, covering almost all the dead bodies, and we were able yesterday to get out of her about 140 stand of arms, which I have got safe to the Custom-house, and this day they are endeavouring to get out the remainder, and bury the dead; in short every exertion is making use to save everything, and to afford relief to the unfortunate sufferers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ivan Fitzgeraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12707837599657049913noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033996839726386649.post-36916323321584777962015-09-21T13:46:00.001-07:002015-09-24T13:11:11.601-07:00Simondes: On the Wreck at Tramore<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<i>With muffled drums and arms reversed,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Behold you mournful train immersed<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>In bitter tears of woe.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>For Douglas and his gallant crew<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Of warriors so brave,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Tramore- thy billows murm’ring hoarse,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>A wretched sight unfold,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Each wave throws up a livid corpse,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>A scanty few survivors stand,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>E’en now, a wife or child from far,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Comes driving to thy shore,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Or now a hero seamed with scars,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Insatiate death, thy fury stay,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The wreck within Tramore<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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