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Wexford Lifeboat Station is the base for a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) inshore lifeboat at Wexford in Ireland. The first lifeboat for Wexford Harbour was at Rosslare Fort Lifeboat Station from 1838. A second, larger lifeboat for Wexford was stationed here from 1858 although the smaller lifeboat continued to be known as the ...
By 1788, Wexford, with 44 cargo ships and 200 herring boats was the sixth busiest port in Ireland. However the dangerous state of the harbour was a major impediment to trade. A new body - The Corporation for the Improvement of the Bar, Town & Harbour of Wexford was set up to improve and enhance the channel and to build quays, wharves and docks.
Rosslare Harbour Lifeboat Station is the base for a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat at Rosslare Harbour in County Wexford, Ireland. The first lifeboat was stationed at Rosslare Harbour in 1896. The station was closed in 1921 but reopened in 1927 to replace the Wexford Lifeboat Station which had been closed due to coastal ...
The North Slob is an area of mud-flats at the estuary of the River Slaney at Wexford Harbour, Ireland. The North Slob is an area of 10 km 2 (2,500 acres) that was reclaimed in the mid-19th century by the building of a sea wall. [2] It is the lowest geographical point on the island of Ireland. [3]
The Waterford and Wexford Railway was engaged in improving the harbour facilities at Rosslare, and negotiations took place to combine the activities on both sides of the ferry crossing. This culminated in the incorporation of the Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Company by the Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Act 1894 ...
Bree Portal tomb. Evidence of early human habitation of County Wexford is widespread. [2]Ireland was inhabited sometime shortly after the ending of the last Ice Age, approximately 10,000 – 8000 BC [3] Conservative estimates place the arrival of the first humans in County Wexford as occurring between 5000 BC – 3000 BC, referred to as the Mesolithic period in Ireland, [4] though they may ...
In the 19th Century, Wexford Harbour was a busy port with ships predominantly depositing cargoes of coal. In 1837, of the 583 vessels came into the port, most carried coal or timber. Departing vessels took cattle, corn, maize and butter; if sailing without cargo, ballast would be added, stabilising the vessel for its outward journey.
Wexford's success as a seaport declined in the first half of the 20th century because of the constantly changing sands of Wexford Harbour. [19] By 1968 it had become unprofitable to keep dredging a channel from the harbour mouth to the quays in order to accommodate the larger ships of the era, so the port closed.