Maritime History
An April Disaster in Wartime Greenock 1940 By Pat Sweeney
April this year was the 79th anniversary of the sinking of the French Destroyer, Maillé Brézé, in Greenock in Scotland on the last day ...
SS St Barchan – The Last Ship Torpedoed in WWI By Richard McCormick
Early on 21st October 1918 a small 362 ton Home Trade coaster the SS Saint Barchan of Glasgow (Official No. 13785), built on the Clyde ...
Women And Children On The RMS Leinster Restored To History
Renowned, maritime historian Philip Lecane, author of Torpedoed! The RMS Leinster Disaster has just written a new book to be published ...
The Lady Nelson
By James Robinson M.Phil. On 14th October 1809, The Lady Nelson, Captain Bernard Wade, was shipwrecked on a voyage from Oporto to Liver...
SS Lochgarry
The first time I dived the wreck of the SS Lochgarry it was a hot day in June and I was sweating in my dry suit as I waited for the ski...
Pirates at Muglins
Original Newspaper ReportPETER M'KINLIE, GEORGE GIDLEY, ANDREW ZEKERMAN, AND RICHARD ST. QUINTIN
Executed for Piracy and Murder, Decemb...
Lost to Time and Tide
There were no constructed harbours in this part of Dublin Bay before the early 1800’s. Boats, small ones that is, landed on shale and s...
Italian Salvage Ships at the Galley Head
On 19 May 1922, the ageing P&O liner, Egypt, departed from Tilbury, bound for Marseille and Bombay, having on board 294 crew and fo...
Man-of-war Head, Dublin
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 o...
The wanderer at Kingstown and John Masefield
THE WANDERER AT KINGSTOWN
By
Cormac F. Lowth
The great manmade harbour of Dun Laoghaire, formerly Kingstown, was conceived and bui...