Maritime History
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, ...
Concrete ships
Concrete Ships
By Richard Lewis
Concrete is not a new material - its use probably goes back at least 25 centuries – but what is m...
The Guinness Fleets
The Guinness fleets of Boats ships and yachts
Edward J Bourke
The Guinness brewing concern had substantial maritime resources to suppo...