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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
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.
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.
These passengers were people desperate to escape the Great Famine of Ireland at the time, and conditions for steerage passengers were tough. An area of six foot square was allocated to up to 4 passengers (who might not be related) and their children. Often 50% died on passage (they were known as "coffin ships").
The ship lay upon her side for a minute or two, having seemingly run aground. Shortly afterwards at 02:10, about 14 minutes after the collision, the bow rose briefly out of the water and the ship finally sank. [9] Hundreds of people were thrown into the near-freezing water. The disaster resulted in the deaths of 1,012 people.
This was the first Irish mass-killing to be called "Bloody Sunday". 1921, 10 July Bloody Sunday (Lower Falls massacre) Belfast: 17 Over 70 one of a series of killings by Protestant extremists, the IRA and the Royal Irish Constabulary after the Irish War of Independence; named "Belfast's Bloody Sunday", until 1972. 1922, 1 April Arnon Street ...