Loss of Emigrant Ship Exmouth
In 1847, During the Great Hunger, the Brig Exmouth left Derry (Londonderry) for Quebec. Rather than sailing west across the Atlantic, a gale blew her east and she was wrecked…
Irish Willow
On 16 March 1942, U-753 stopped the Irish Willow, While they waited on instructions from Berlin, whether or not to sink her, they shared schnapps to honour St Patrick
Lines of the Tayleur
The Tayleur is known as the first Titanic. Sixty years before the Titanic, this White Star liner, technically the most advanced for her age. was lost on her maiden voyage.…
Lady Nelson
On 14th October 1809, The Lady Nelson, Captain Bernard Wade, was shipwrecked on a voyage from Oporto to Liverpool, off the Skelligs, Co. Kerry. The 200 tonne vessel contained a…
Lord Cloncurry and the Aid
The AID with a valuable cargo of Roman sculptures sank at Killiney. This tells of Lord Cloncurry, his life and the loss of the AID
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…