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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.
Often 50% died on passage (they were known as "coffin ships"). However, the mortality rate on the Dunbrody was exceptionally low, no doubt due to her captains, John Baldwin and his successor John W. Williams, with passengers writing home often praising their dedication.
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 ...
Coffin ship may refer to: The Coffin Ship, a 1911 silent film; Coffin ship, an idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish and Scottish migrants to the United States; Coffin ship (insurance), an over-insured vessel that is scuttled in order to make a bogus claim; Coffin Brig, slang term for the Cherokee-class brig-sloops built for the ...
The BBC television drama series The Onedin Line details coffin ship fraud in 1972 episode S02E07 "Coffin Ship", and presents Samuel Plimsoll and his efforts in 1973 episode S03E06 "Danger Level" as well. Leon Uris also refers to coffin ships in his novel Redemption.
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 .
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Unveiled in 2000, the plaque inscription reads in Irish and English: "Through these gates passed most of the 1,300,000 Irish migrants who fled from the Great Famine and 'took the ship' to Liverpool in the years 1845–52" The Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool has an exhibition regarding the Irish Migration, showing models of ships ...