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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.
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.
Pomona – On 24 April the emigrant ship Pomona (1,181 tons) was wrecked on a sandbank off Ballyconigar. She was carrying mainly Irish emigrants from Liverpool to New York. 389 people lost their lives. The loss of life on Pomona was the sixth worst in Irish waters surpassed by Lusitania, Leinster, Norge, Tayleur and Rival. [8] 389 1810
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 ...
28 April – the brig Exmouth carrying emigrants from Derry bound for Quebec is wrecked off Islay with only three survivors from more than 250 on board. [6] [7] May – typhus epidemic of 1847 among Irish emigrants arriving by ship in Canada.
Francis Spaight was a transport ship in the 19th century, owned by and named after a merchant based in Limerick, Ireland. [1] The ship was engaged in trade with North America, such as transporting Irish emigrants to North America and transporting timber on the return trip. Francis Spaight became infamous for an incident of cannibalism.
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.
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 ...