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…
Journal of Research on Irish Maritime History
In 1847, During the Great Hunger, the Brig Exmouth left Derry (Londonderry) for Quebec. Rather than sailing west across the…
On 16 March 1942, U-753 stopped the Irish Willow, While they waited on instructions from Berlin, whether or not to…
The Tayleur is known as the first Titanic. Sixty years before the Titanic, this White Star liner, technically the most…
On 14th October 1809, The Lady Nelson, Captain Bernard Wade, was shipwrecked on a voyage from Oporto to Liverpool, off…
The AID with a valuable cargo of Roman sculptures sank at Killiney. This tells of Lord Cloncurry, his life and…
The Plassy is the wreck shown in the opening sequence of Fr Ted. Behind it is a real story of…
2011 is the fiftieth anniversary of the successful raising of the almost intact early seventeenth- century Swedish warship Vasa from…
The history of slavery is probably as old as that of mankind itself. Hundreds of thousands of slaves built such…