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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.
Ships No. Comm. Displacement Note Patrol vessels Samuel Beckett class: Offshore patrol vessel (OPV) LÉ Samuel Beckett: P61 2014 2,256 tonnes In service on a "three-ship [..] operational rotation" as of July 2024 [1] LÉ James Joyce: P62 2015 LÉ William Butler Yeats: P63 2016 LÉ George Bernard Shaw: P64 2019 [2] Róisín class: Large patrol ...
Grosse Isle, Quebec is an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, home to a quarantine station set up in 1832 to contain a cholera epidemic, and home to thousands of Irish emigrants from 1832 to 1848. [2] On 17 May 1847, the first vessel, the Syria, arrived with 430 fever cases. This was followed by eight more ships a few days later.
Looshtauk was an Irish emigrant ship, captained by John M. Thain, sailing from the Port of Liverpool to the Port of Quebec on April 17, 1847. 462 passengers boarded at Liverpool. [1] Typhus was caught by two male passengers in Liverpool and broke out during the crossing. Scarlet fever also erupted.
Their first ship was Marcus Hill, bought in 1815, at the conclusion of the American War; she continued to traverse the Atlantic until 1827. She was followed in 1824 by President . With the purchase of Caroline in 1834 and Erin in 1836, the McCorkell's began to collect oil paintings of each of their ships; these are still in family ownership.
915 Victory Blvd. Marine Hospital—Quarantine Cemetery. This cemetery operated from 1799 to 1858. All ships entering into NY Harbor were subjected to health inspection. This site is a public golf course which operates over the cemetery. Irish Hunger Marker and memorial designates the site as a final resting place of many Irish immigrants.
This category relates to all ships designed, built, or operated in the island of Ireland, including the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ships of Ireland .
This category includes naval ships designed, built, or operated in or by the Republic of Ireland. Subcategories. ... Ships of the Irish Naval Service (3 C, 1 P) C.