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SS Lochgarry

Nov 11th

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History of the SS Lochgarry
One of Ireland’s most Popular Recreational Diving Wrecks

Dublin Shipyards

Feb 22nd

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Irish Shipbuilding -Miscellaneous Dublin yards – While the main shipbuilding in Dublin Involved the Liffey yard, later Vickers, and Ross & Walpole several early years have disappeared without trace. – This short article remembers some Dublin shipyars

Tayleur

Tayleur was lost at Lambay

Nov 8th

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The sailing ship Tayleur was lost at Lambay just north of Dublin on 21 January 1854. Of the 650 aboard only 290 survived, merely three of the hundred women survived and only three of fifty children reached shore. The loss was due to a combination of compass error, an untried ship, a small crew and…

Pomona

Pomona, emigrant ship, 389 died

Nov 8th

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The emigrant ship Pomona (1181 tons) was wrecked on a sandbank off Ballyconigar on 28-4-1859. Three hundred and eighty nine people lost their lives.