Chart of Tramore Bay

Chart of Tramore Bay

Thursday, 1 October 2015

Resolution, 3 July 1781

The Resolution, Master M Cragg, a sloop of 60 tons burden, with a draught of water of 10 ft. when loaded. Built in Minehead in 1764, she was owned by Devonshire, classified as A1 and was last described as a constant trader between Wales and Cork.[1]

Waterford, 4 July yesterday, about ten o’clock in the forenoon, the sloop Resolution, of Minehead, Mathew Craig, master, with coal, bound from Swansea to Cork, was drove ashore at Rathwhelan cove, near Ballymacaw, in a violent gale.[2]



[1] Lloyd’s Register, 1782.
[2] Dublin Evening Post , 7 July 1781.

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