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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.
Coffee Stain Studios AB is a Swedish video game developer based in Skövde.Founded in 2010 by nine University of Skövde students, the company is best known for Goat Simulator, which was released in April 2014, and Satisfactory, released in September 2024.
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 production's interior scenes were filmed at Thanhouser's New York studio in New Rochelle, at the corner of Grove and Warren streets. [4] The scenes of wharves, ship-repair yards, and voyage scenes were filmed on location at the town's nearby harbor on Long Island Sound [2] As was common practice in the early silent era, interior scenes were usually filmed outdoors, utilizing three-sided ...
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.
Many overloaded overinsured ships in the days of wooden sailing ships were old ships riddled with wood rot and woodworm and shipworm, repainted and renamed and falsely stated to be new ships. There were over 2,000 cases of sailors who had signed on as crew for a ship being tried in court for refusing to board upon seeing its condition.
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 ...
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