Vessels
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...
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...
The Great Eastern
When the Great Eastern was launched in 1858 it was the largest ship in the world.
It was designed by a great Victorian engineer, Isamb...
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...
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...
The sinking of Arandora Star
‘Drowned like rats’
The torpedoing of Arandora Star off the Donegal Coast, 2 July 1940
Michael Kennedy (difp at iol.ie)
This paper is...