M.V. Plassy
The Plassy is the wreck shown in the opening sequence of Fr Ted. Behind it is a real story of…
Irish Poplar
The Irish Poplar was the first ship acquired by Irish Shipping Ltd. She imported white wheat flour.
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…
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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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
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…