M.V. Plassy
The Plassy is the wreck shown in the opening sequence of Fr Ted. Behind it is a real story of…
Irish Shipping Ltd. A Fleet History
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Irish Poplar
The Irish Poplar was the first ship acquired by Irish Shipping Ltd. She imported white wheat flour.
Remember City of Waterford (convoy OG74)
S.S. CITY OF WATERFORD S.S. CITY OF WATERFORD Aplin, Thomas E., Dublin Furlong, George, Wexford Naylor, Samuel, Bray, Co. Wicklow…
Remember Cymric
SCHOONER CYMRIC Bergin, Philip, Wexford Brennan, James, Wexford Cassedy, Christopher, Athboy, Co. Meath Crosbie, James, Wexford Furlong, Kevin, Wexford Kieran,…
Remember SS St Fintan
S.S. St. FINTAN S.S. St. FINTAN Friitzen Carl, Dublin Hendy, Neil, Isle of Arran, Scotland Howat, James, Paisley, Scotland Jones,…
Remember Innisfallen
M.V. INNISFALLEN MII - M.V. INNISFALLEN Doyle, W., Dublin Geary, Daniel, Kinsale Porter, James, Dublin Rickard, Joseph., Howth and three…
Remember Kerry Head
S.S. KERRY HEAD Begley, Thomas, Limerick Naughton, George, Limerick Byrne, Dick, Wicklow Naughton, James, Limerick Davidson, William, Carrickfergus Nicholl, George,…
Remember SS Meath
S.S. MEATH
Remember: Naomh Garbhan
Fishing Boat - NAOMH GARBHAN sorry, no illustration MII - Fishing Boat - NAOMH GARBHAN Mined and sunk of Waterford…
Remember City of Bremen
SS City of Bremen At 6pm on 2 June 1940, The City of Bremen (Saorstait and Continental Lines) was transporting…
Remember City of Limerick
S.S. CITY OF LIMERICK S.S. CITY OF LIMERICK Brennan, Hugh, Clontarf, Dublin Sullivan, John, Liverpool
Remember Ardmore
SS Ardmore MII - S.S. ARDMORE Barry, Frank, Passage West, Co. Cork Hare, Thomas Edwin, Dublin O'Regan, James, Cork Bruland,…
Remember – Luimneach
S.S. LUIMNEACH Able Seaman M Carrol died later of pneumonia On 4 Sep, 1940, the unescorted and neutral Luimneach (Master…
Remember Kyleclare
S.S. KYLECLARE Barry, Edward, Wexford Morgan, John, Dublin Brannock, Patrick, Dublin Mooney, Daniel, Dublin Brady, Thomas, Galway O'Brien, L., Dublin…
Remember Irish Oak
S.S. IRISH OAK Sunk by U-Boat U-607 in North Atlantic, 15th May 1943 Crew rescued by S.S. IRISH PLANE
Remember Irish Pine
Read the wikipedia article Bent, Patrick, Wexford Dooley, Maurice, Limerick O'Connor, Joseph, Dublin Cashin, Kevin, Dublin Duffy, Joseph, Dublin O'Donoghue,…
Remember Clonlara (convoy OG71)
Sunk by torpedo from U-564 in North Atlantic, 22nd August 1941, convoy OG 71 The CLONARA had rescued thirteen men…
Remember Munster
Mined and sunk in the Irish Sea - 2nd February 1940 five wounded, one died later The first Irish ship…
Remember ST Leukos
Sunk with all 11 hands by gunfire from U-38 (Liebe) - NW Tory Island - 9th March 1940 The Leukos…
Remember ILV Isolda
Sunk by aircraft off Waterford coast, 19th December 1940 Dunne, P.,12 Sallynoggin Villa, Dun Laoghaire, aged 45. Farrell, W., Seaman;…
Irish WWII Losses
How Ireland's Mercantile Marine fared during WWII by Frank Forde, author of 'The Long Watch', the standard work on this…
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…
HMS A5 (Forgotten Submariners) Lost at Cobh
Early in 1999, Chief Petty Officer Owen O'Keeffe of the Irish Naval Service was visiting Old Church Cemetery near Cobh,…
The Flanders Flotilla and U-Boat Alley
The repeated claims that America declared against Germany during WW1 because her citizens and ships had been attacked by German…
LOP 6 Howth Head
Firstly I’d like to look at Howth Head LOP in the general context of the Coast Watching Service and talk…
G2, the coast-watching service and the Battle of the Atlantic
This paper is an early version of the introduction to the Guarding Neutral Ireland: the coastwatching service and military intelligence…
Early Irish Free State Naval Activity
Eddie Bourke Dainty The early years of the Irish Free State from January 1922 were a time of turmoil after…
The Boyd Disaster
February 1861 will be remembered not only for the loss of a great many ships around Dublin Bay but also…
Simon Bolivar
One thousand men of the Irish Legion landed on Venezuela's Margarita Island in August 1819, after a 4,500-mile sea voyage…
John Richardson Wigham
A great inventor and businessman. Actually born in Scotland, he was accused of being Irish, which he never denied. When…
John DeLap
Irish Seamen John Delap Apparently born in Kerry most of what we know about Delap comes from Royal Navy and…
Robert Gibbings, Underwater Artist
Robert Gibbings, An Irish Artist Underwater By Cormac F. LowthFirst published in SUBSEA, the quarterly journal of the Irish Underwater…
John Philip Holland (Submarines)
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Francis Beaufort (Wind Scale)
We are all used to hearing weather forecasts on radio or television predicting ‘Wind Force So-and- So’. How many realise…
Mutiny & Murder on the Earl of Sandwich
Peter Brady will deliver a lecture entitled: Mutiny & Murder on the Earl of Sandwich on Thursday 21st November 2013…
Italian Salvage Ships ai the Galley Head
Paddy O'Sullivan traces the history of the Italian salvage company, Sorima, and describes its successful Ludgate operation off the Galley…
MV Kerlogue
Irish ships were neutral during the war. The Kerlogue story is interesting as she was attacked by both sides and…
Rochdale and Prince of Wales
These troop ships were lost on their way to the Napoleonic Wars. Over 400 bodies washed up on an urban…
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 sinking of Arandora Star
The torpedoing of the Blue Star Line’s 15,000-ton luxury liner Arandora Star off Bloody Foreland, Donegal on 2 July 1940…
Amity (1701) The Dunworley Slave Ship
The history of slavery is probably as old as that of mankind itself. Hundreds of thousands of slaves built such…
Crescent City
Mexican Silver Dollars at Galley Head, recovered from the cargo of the Crescent City
M.V. Kilkenny by Austin Gill
An account of the events of the night of 21st November 1991 Austin Gill, A.B., M.V. Kilkenny. The events of…
Fethard Lifeboat Disaster.
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Moyalla Salvaged
The salvage of the valuable cargo of the Moyalla is the tale of triumph of a skilled first time salvor…
1913 Mural at LBS Men’s Shed
On Saturday 14 September 2013 at 2pm Unveiling of a mural of the 1913 lockout at the LBS Men's Shed,…
1913 Mural at LBS Men’s Shed
On Saturday 14 September 2013 at 2pm Unveiling of a mural of the 1913 lockout at the LBS Men's Shed,…
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…
SS Lochgarry
History of the SS Lochgarry One of Ireland’s most Popular Recreational Diving Wrecks
The Art of Diving by Nick Hanna
The art of Diving Nick Hanna with photos By Alexander Mustard This is another of these books that make a…
Objective
The Objective of this site is to support and promote research into Irish maritime history. Here we will publish articles,…
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A Riddle of Sand- The Kish Bank
It is often said that there is too much ‘rubbish’ information on the web. To be sure, there is rubbish…
The East India Company at Dundaniel
In attempting to give an account of the East India Company at Dundaniel and especially their iron works, it has…
Lost to Time and Tide
This article offers no conclusions or answers, and is only designed to record some unusual archaeological features within a beautiful…
A History of Diving in Ireland
While there were few diving inventors or innovators in Ireland, it is remarkable that many of the early diving pioneers…
Dublin Shipyards
Notes on Shipbuilding on the Liffey
Concrete Ships
During the First world war a shortage of steel developed as replacements were being built for the huge tonnage sunk…
Morven Disaster. December, 1906.
The Morven was bound from Portland, Oregon to Liverpool with a cargo of about three thousand tons of grain for…
M.V. Plassy
The Plassy is the wreck shown in the opening sequence of Fr Ted. Behind it is a real story of…
The Wreck of the Bolivar
The Country had been in the grip of freezing conditions for the entire month of February 1947 with snowstorms, and…
Skerries a maritime town and the Maritime Economy
Buss Bar Skerries, 8.00 all welcome
MV Killarney
The MV Killarney formerly a liner tender and excursion boat at Cork has been converted into a bar and restaurant…
Pibroch
The Pibroch lies at the pier in Letterfrack Co Galway. She is a later type of vessel than the typical…
Mary Stanford
Mary Stanford, the Ballycotton Lifeboat renowened for the Daunt Lightship rescue, in Grand Canal Dock.
Creteboon
The Creteboon was one of a number of concrete vessels built during the first world war at Carlingford Lough. The…
Naomh Eanna
The former Aran Islands ferry once owned by CIE is administered by the Nautical Trust and used as floating shops…
Port Lairge
(photo By Tony Brennan) Built in Dublin Dockyard the port Lairge was the Waterford port dredger for nearly a hundred…