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Replica of the "good ship" Jeanie Johnston, which sailed during the Great Hunger when coffin ships were common. No one ever died on the Jeanie Johnston. A coffin ship (Irish: long cónra) is a popular idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders displaced by the Highland Clearances.
Famine Ship Memorial, Celia Griffin Memorial Park, Galway. The Galway Famine Ship Memorial is a memorial located in Salthill, County Galway, Ireland. It was unveiled on 4 July 2012. [1] The monument is an expansion of a pre-existing monument to Celia Griffin, a girl who died at age 6 on the streets of Galway.
Ennistymon: This was the first memorial in Ireland to honour those who suffered and were lost during the Great Famine. It is erected across the road from Ennistymon Hospital, built on the grounds of the local workhouse where an estimated 20,000 Irish died and a mass graveyard for children who perished and were buried without coffins. [1]
Robert Whyte, pseudonymous author of the 1847 Famine Ship Diary: The Journey of a coffin ship, [4] described how on arrival at Grosse Isle the Irish emigrant passengers on the Ajax dressed in their best clothes and helped the crew to clean the ship, expecting to be sent either to hospital or on to Quebec after their long voyage. In fact, the ...
These passengers were people desperate to escape the Great Famine of Ireland at the time, and conditions for steerage passengers were tough. An area of six foot square was allocated to up to 4 passengers (who might not be related) and their children. Often 50% died on passage (they were known as "coffin ships").
Passenger ships of Ireland include all ships designed, built, or operated in Ireland for the purpose of transporting passengers. ... Coffin ship; SS Cork (1899) E.
Hannah was a brig, launched at Norton, New Brunswick, Canada in 1826.She transported emigrants to Canada during the Irish Famine.She is known for the terrible circumstances of her 1849 shipwreck, in which the captain and two officers left the sinking ship aboard the only lifeboat, leaving passengers and the rest of the crew to fend for themselves.
On 5 June 1914, Canadian Pacific Steamships (CPR), who had commissioned the Empress of Ireland, announced it had chartered the Allan Line's Virginian to fill in the void in service in its fleet left by the loss of Empress of Ireland, joining Empress of Britain and other previously acquired Canadian Pacific ships on the St. Lawrence run.