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26 July 1914 Howth Gun-Running

Erskine Childers landed the Asgard in Howth with 1,500 guns for the Irish volunteers. Later that day, at Batchelor’s Walk, British troops fired at supports of the volunteers, 3 died and 38 injured.

30 July 1940 Kyleclare rescues survivors from Clan Menzies (British)

150 miles west of Loop Head, torpedoed and sunk by U-99. Six died. Eighty-eight survivors brought to Enniscrone. The British government expressed thanks and appreciation.

3 August 1805 William Rowan Hamilton

, the Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer; was born in Dublin.

5 August 1858 First trans-atlantic cable

Cyrus W. Field completed the first transatlantic cable. It linked Newfoundland to Ireland. The line went completely dead in October. William Thompson oversaw the operation at sea aboard the HMS Agamemnon, which laid half the cable. The other half was laid by the USS Niagara. The cables had been spliced at a central meeting point on June 26. A new attempt to lay newly designed cable failed in 1865. Another attempt in 1866 succeeded.

Our objective, click to expand

The objective of this site is to support and promote research into Irish Maritime History. We include some general maritime history and general Irish history.

Here we will publish articles, as well as identifying articles on other sites. We will provide some material which may be of assistance to researchers suggest libraries, museums and other locations
We will review books, list lecture programs and make other announcements

Encourage education and school programs, such as Comenius and ‘Follow the fleet‘
Participate in other like-minded projects, such as Wikipedia’s WikiProject Irish Maritime.
The overall objective is to promote an appreciation of our maritime history.

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A Riddle of Sand – The Kish Bank

Click here for full article It is often said that there is too much ‘rubbish’ information on the web. To be sure, there is rubbish but there’s rubbish everywhere. There is certainly not so much that the internet should not be used for research. This would of course be foolish. Like all libraries of information, one must discriminate and discard and hone, until you arrive at what you believe to be the nearest to accurate you can reasonably achieve.