J W Maher 's List of Tramore Shipwrecks 1816-58 The following list, compiled by J W Maher, First Secretary to the Lifeboat, from contemporary notes "taken upon each occasion of Wreck," was originally published in the Waterford Mirror and Tramore Visitor, 4 December 1874 and later edited by Maurice J Wigham and republished in Decies, The Journal of the Old Waterford society, no 12, September 1979. The list, while highly useful, appears to be quite inaccurate, many of the ships are misnamed and wrecks are often incorrectly dated, sometimes by several years. There are several important omissions and the present writer is as of yet unable to locate any primary evidence for many of vessels included.