U-35 in Dingle
at Ballymore, three miles west of Dingle, 4 October 1939, U-35 landed 28 Greek sailors
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…