Ireland’s Mercantile Marine during the Second World War
An earlier version of this article was donated to Wikipedia The Irish Mercantile MarineIn Ireland it is the “Mercantile Marine”; in the United Kingdom, it is the “Merchant Navy”; in…
ISL and Lemass
This article has been written to give people a sense of conditions in Ireland during the early years of the “Emergency” which existed in Ireland from 1939, and the urgent…
Audacious Secret
World War 1 was declared on 5 August 1914. On 27 October 1914, disaster befell the Royal Navy. HMS Audacious, a modern "state-of-the-art" super-dreadnought battleship, struck a mine and sank.…
Guardships at Kingstown
GUARD-SHIPS AT KINGSTOWN By Cormac F. Lowth Shortly after the completion of Kingstown Harbour in the early 1820s, it became a convenient and preferred haven for elements of the British…
Irish WWII Losses
How Ireland´s Mercantile Marine fared during WWII by Frank Forde, author of "The Long Watch", the standard work on this subject
The First World War at sea off West Cork
The ferocity of the First World War evokes names like the Somme, Verdun, Paschendale and Mons and maybe Jutland or Coronel. It may therefore be a surprise to realise that…
HMS A5 (Forgotten Submariners) Lost at Cobh
on 13 February 1905. H M Submarine A5 was in the Haulbowline Naval Base, Queenstown,(now Cobh), Co Cork. There was an explosion while her petrol engine was being refueled. The…