The Guinness fleets of Boats ships and yachts Edward J Bourke The Guinness brewing concern had substantial maritime resources to support distribution of the famous beer. In addition the family spent a lot of their leisure on a range of fabulous pleasure craft. Initially the reach of the brewing concern expanded from 1790…
Tayleur fund for the succour of shipwrecked strangers – Edward J Bourke The sailing ship Tayleur was wrecked in January 1854 at Lambay with the loss of 220 of the 670 aboard. A fund was established in both Liverpool and Dublin to assist the victims. The fund was chaired by Lord Talbot de Malahide and…
THE MAN OF WAR HEAD A Mystery Solved. By Cormac F. Lowth Man Of War in North County Dublin could be better described as a hamlet rather than a village. It consists today of a crossroads with a few houses and a pub, appropriately named the Man Of War Inn. The ruined remains of…
A Riddle of Sand The Kish Bank It is often said that there is too much ‘rubbish’ information on the web. To be sure, there is rubbish but there’s rubbish everywhere. There is certainly not so much that the internet should not be used for research. This would of course be foolish. Like all…
from Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast volume 2 Edward J Bourke Early Times The fury with which primitive communities descended upon a stricken vessel can only be regarded with a sense of awe. Tales abound of the ferocity of wreckers and their cruel deeds. Many tales are related which must be apocryphal. Foremost among these…
An original account of the trial and execution of pirates on December 19th, 1765. Their bodies were displayed in at Poolbeg and on Muglins Rock off Dalkey Island as a warning to others.
Few stories have been mentioned so often with so much confusion than the tale of the collision between a sailing ship and a tram at Ringsend bridge. There have been several errors repeated and one discovery has been that there were two similar incidents at the same place. Earlier researchers have not had the advantage of the computer searchable versions of the digitised newspapers and this has helped resolve mysteries and tales such as this. The story gained interest when the visitor’s centre was constructed near the site of the accident. The story defied researchers who had hoped that a photo of the incident might be available for display.
This history of the Maritime Institute of Ireland was written by Dr. John de Courcy Ireland, author of many works on maritime history
There is a small lake called Nemi in the Alban Hills, about 30 kilometers southeast of Rome. Between 1927 and 1933, two enormous wooden ships, which once belonged to the Emperor Caligula, and had lain on the bottom of the Lake for over nineteen hundred years, were salvaged in what was perhaps the greatest underwater archaeological recovery ever accomplished.
MARITIME ART AND DUN LAOGHAIRE by Cormac F. Lowth. cormaclowth@utvinternet.com Illustrated talk given to the Dún Laoghaire Borough Historical Society on Feb. 21st. 2007. and to the Matitime Institute of Ireland on 20th. March 2008, at Stella Maris Seafarers’ Club I am indebted to a great many people who helped me to put this talk…
