Maritime History
Irish Poplar
ABANDONED SHIP GAVE BIRTH TO IRISH SHIPPING’S WARTIME FLEET
This article was first published in the Sunday Express on 19 February 1967....
M.V. Plassy
The Last Voyage of theM.V. Plassy
by Michael KirwanOriginally published in the Winter 2010 edition of the Limerick JournalThe 8th Marc...
Shore Rescue
By far the largest number of shipwrecks occur when ships come into unplanned contact with the shore. In less enlightened days the local...
Lifeboats in DúnLaoghaire
There have been lifeboats in Dublin Bay for more than 200 years. This is one of the oldest services in existence. The first lifeboat wa...
DunLaoghaire Harbour
In November 1807 two ships, the Rochdale and Prince of Wales set sail from Pigeonhouse harbour in Dublin, bound for England. They were ...
The Dublin Port Diving Bell
The Dublin Port Diving Bellby Cormac F. LowthThis article was first published in The International Journal of Diving History, Volume 3,...
Engineering
Engineering – The age of Steam.
Since early times ships were driven by oars and sail. The crews of these ships consisted of ordinary se...
The Crescent City
Mexican Silver Dollars at Galley Head
P.O’Sullivan, Bandon - 1 November 2006
In 1870, The Liverpool and Mississippi Steamship Company t...
Morven Disaster
Morven Disaster. December, 1906.
The Morven was bound from Portland, Oregon to Liverpool with a cargo of about three thousand tons of g...
The Dunworley Slave Ship.
Paddy O’Sullivan 19 November 2009
The Dunworley Slave Ship: Amity 1701
The history of slavery is probably as old as that of mankind it...