The Sea Horse Analysis

Relics of the Sea Horse

Waterford, Feb 25 We have learned that the plate of the 59th Regiment was packed in five chests; that two of these were conveyed in the Sea Horse, which was wrecked in Tramore Bay; and that the other three had arrived with the remaining part of the regiment in Kinsale. The piece of plate, part of a plateau, which was formerly mentioned as having been recovered, was the property, we have since heard, of the Quarter master.-Waterford Chron. Curious relic.- A memento of the wreck of the Sea Horse transport, in Tramore bay, in 1816, was last week washed up near Rhine Shark, being the sword of an officer of the 59th Regiment, who very probably met his fate near the fatal spot.
On the 31st January,

The men immediately rowed towards it, and found it to be the fluke of a large anchor, which was firmly embedded in the sand. Having procured the assistance of another boat’s crew, they contrived to fasten around it some strong ropes, which they secured to the boats, and after considerable exertion, managed to drag the huge anchor from its long resting place, and to tow it towards the Lady’s cove, where it was landed. It measured 13feet in length and nearly 8 feet in breath, and from the fact of its being greatly corroded, and thickly encrusted with rust and sand, and also from its being discovered between the shore and that part of Tramore Bay where the Sea Horse was lost on the night of 31st January 1816, having a wing of the 59th Regiment on board, and where no large vessel had ever ventured before, it is strongly conjectured that this anchor belonged to that ill-fated vessel, and is therefore, viewed as an object of considerable interest. It is a singular fact that on the 31st January, 1847, during a heavy gale of wind, a sword, encased in a leather scabbard, was cast on shore about the same place, and although 31 years had then elapsed, the name of the maker was perfectly legible upon the blade, and from circumstances which afterwards transpired it was proved

Palmer’s auction, Waterford on Thursday, was a chair made of mahogany obtained from the wreck of the Sea Horse. Underneath the chair is a brass plate bearing the name of the ill-fated vessel. This plate was originally a bow or stern plated salved from a piece of timber which formed part of a plank belonging to one of the ship’s boats. The transport Sea Horse was wrecked in Tramore Bay on 30th January, 1816, with a loss of 363 lives, the majority of whom were soldiers of the British Army. There is a monument to them in the Protestant cemetery, Tramore and another on Doneraile walk, do. The Sea Horse is supposed to have struck the rocks inside Brownstown