Simon Bolivar – Liberator of Venezuela
One thousand men of the Irish Legion landed on Venezuela's Margarita Island in August 1819, after a 4,500-mile sea voyage…
Journal of Research on Irish Maritime History
One thousand men of the Irish Legion landed on Venezuela's Margarita Island in August 1819, after a 4,500-mile sea voyage…
A great inventor and businessman. Actually born in Scotland, he was accused of being Irish, which he never denied. When…
John DeLap of the Imperial Russian Navy, credited with saving the life of Peter the Great
Robert Gibbings, An Irish Artist Underwater By Cormac F. LowthFirst published in SUBSEA, the quarterly journal of the Irish Underwater…
We are all used to hearing weather forecasts on radio or television predicting ‘Wind Force So-and- So’. How many realise…
The Kerlogue is seen as exemplar of neutral Irish ships during World War II. She was very small. She was…
These troop ships were lost on their way to the Napoleonic Wars. Over 400 bodies washed up on an urban…
The Poet Laureate John Masefield was essentially a sea poet; the sea was what he knew and wrote about best.…
The torpedoing of the Blue Star Line’s 15,000-ton luxury liner Arandora Star off Bloody Foreland, Donegal on 2 July 1940…