Go to Top

Posts tagged Leinster

Leinster Postcard

RMS Leinster, over 500 died

An exhibit illustrating this event will, on occasion, be displayed in the Museum The date is 10th October 1918. The place is Kingstown (now DunLaoghaire), Britain (of which Ireland is an integral part) is at war with Germany. A war that came to a close within a number of weeks. At the Carlisle pier one…

Pomona

Pomona, emigrant ship, 389 died

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.

  • Maritime History

  • Check our Book Reviews