M.V. Plassy: Rescue
The Plassy is the wreck shown in the opening sequence of Fr Ted. Behind it is a real story of a heroic rescue.
The Vasa, 50 years later
2011 is the fiftieth anniversary of the successful raising of the almost intact early seventeenth- century Swedish warship Vasa from the mud at the bottom of Stockholm Harbour. It represents…
Slave Ship Amity (1701)
The history of slavery is probably as old as that of mankind itself. Hundreds of thousands of slaves built such classical civilisations as Greece, Egypt and Rome. Viking Dublin was…
Crescent City – Mexican Silver Dollars
Mexican Silver Dollars at Galley Head, recovered from the cargo of the Crescent City
The Mystery of the Titanic
The Mystery of the Titanic She was the largest ship in the world at the time She was proclaimed unsinkable She collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden…
SS Lochgarry
History of the SS Lochgarry One of Ireland’s most Popular Recreational Diving Wrecks
Demeray: Treasure Ship
“The two barren islets are best remembered as the scene of the several shipwrecks. Here in 1819 the Demerary carrying gold bullion was wrecked and sank. One of her passengers,…