Articles
G2, the Coastwatching Service and the Battle of the Atlantic: 1939-41
G2, the Coastwatching Service and the Battle of the Atlantic: 1939-41
Michael Kennedy (difp at iol.ie)
A PDF version of this article i...
The Flanders Flotilla
The repeated claims that America declared against Germany during WW1 because her citizens and ships had been attacked by German U-boats...
The Mystery of the Titanic
RMS TitanicReport of the Court: “The court, having carefully enquired into the circumstances of the above mentioned shipping casualty, ...
Kish
A Riddle of Sand
(This article was originally published in January 2012)
It is often said that there is too much ‘rubbish’ informati...
M.V. Kilkenny by Austin Gill
An account of the events of the night of 21st November 1991
Austin Gill, A.B., M.V. Kilkenny.
The events of that night are stil...
John Richardson Wigham
John Richardson Wigham(15 January 1829 – 16 November 1906) was a lighthouse engineer. He was a great inventor and successful ...
Simon Bolivar
DUNLEARY AND SIMON BOLIVAR
In Ireland in1819, in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, there was an abundance of trained soldiers, w...
John Delap
Irish Seamen
John Delap
Apparently born in Kerry most of what we know about Delap comes from Royal Navy and Russian navy records.
In S...
The Boyd Disaster
THE BOYD DISASTER.
by Cormac F. Lowth
cormaclowth@utvinternet.com
And such the trust that still were mine,
Though stormy winds swept...
Hutchison’s Gold Medal
Artifacts of the Maritime museum
Captain Hutchison’s Gold RNLI medal
Captain William Hutchison (1793-1881), from County Kildare, ...