An On-line Journal of Research on Irish Maritime History.
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.
A Showcase of Articles, published here
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Apostleship of the Sea (Stella Maris)
Crescent City – Mexican Silver Dollars
Drevar’s Gold & Wellington Pennies
Fethard Lifeboat Disaster.
G2, the coast-watching service and the Battle of the Atlantic
Ireland’s Mercantile Marine during the Second World War
Irish Poplar
John DeLap – Imperial Russian Navy
John Philip Holland (Submarines)
John Richardson Wigham: lighthouse engineer, inverter and businessman.
Lifeboat Mary Stanford
Lord Cloncurry and the Aid
My experience of being shipwrecked
M.V. Plassy: Rescue
Maritime Art and Dún Laoghaire
Morven Disaster. December, 1906.
MV Kerlogue, as exemplar of neutral Irish ships during World War II; attacked by both sides and rescued both sides.
The loss of troopship Rival from history
The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are described as the golden age of smuggling.
Tayleur | First Titanic | shipwrecked | great loss of life
The Argentine Republic Emigration Scheme
The Man in the Tank
The Man of War Head: A Mystery Solved.
The Mystery of the Titanic
The wanderer at Kingstown and John Masefield
Fate of U-20, the U-boat which sank Lusitania
U-35 in Dingle during WW2
The barges which ferried barrels of Guinness on the River Liffey