Category: Ships

Irish Willow

On 16 March 1942, U-753 stopped the Irish Willow, While they waited on instructions from Berlin, whether or not to…

Lines of the Tayleur

The Tayleur is known as the first Titanic. Sixty years before the Titanic, this White Star liner, technically the most…

Lady Nelson

On 14th October 1809, The Lady Nelson, Captain Bernard Wade, was shipwrecked on a voyage from Oporto to Liverpool, off…

Rival

The troopship Rival was lost off Connemara. 432 drowned. A forgotten wreck, no folk memory survives, probably because this happened…

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…