from the summer 2000 edition of “The Trident” 2000 The Holland Anniversary Year This millennium year 2000 is the hundredth anniversary of the purchase by the American Government of John Philip Holland’s Underwater Torpedo Boat No. 6, on the 11th. April 1900, and her commissioning on 12th. October that year as the first vessel in…
Robert Gibbings, An Irish Artist Underwater By Cormac F. Lowth First published in SUBSEA, the quarterly journal of the Irish Underwater Council, Autumn 2007. Nowadays we tend to take the imagery produced underwater, mostly by digital photography, very much for granted. The advances in technology and the availability of relatively cheap cameras and waterproof housings…
John DeLap – Imperial Russian Navy Irish Seamen John Delap Apparently born in Kerry most of what we know about Delap comes from Royal Navy and Russian navy records. In September 1714, Delap came to the notice of Peter the Great when he was aboard Peter the Great’s flagship Ekaterina. He volunteered to land Peter in a…
DUNLEARY AND SIMON BOLIVAR Cormac F. Lowth cormaclowth [at] utvinterenet [dot] com Simon Bolivar In Ireland in1819, in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, there was an abundance of trained soldiers, who had seen action on the battlefields of Europe, who had been demobbed and had come home to a country facing into a post-war…
THE BOYD DISASTER. by Cormac F. Lowth And such the trust that still were mine, Though stormy winds swept o’er the brine, Or through the tempest’s fiery breath, Raise me from sleep to wreck and death. Emma Hart Willard, Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep. February 1861 will be remembered not only for…
Hobblers – who were they? Dublin Bay’s hobblers recalled at a Dún Laoghaire ceremony first published in the 2002/2003 edition of Inis na Mara More than seven decades after their dangerous enterprise came to an end Dún Laoghaire families with close links to the sea gathered in late September to honour the hobblers. “The who?…
Dennis Collins One-Legged Sailor stoned the King by Cormac F Lowth Throughout the year 1832, debates raged in the British Parliament at Westminster on the subject of Reform. Passions were aroused on the subject and there were heated exchanges which were reported in detail in the newspapers of the day. These reports were often accompanied by lengthy…
The Wreck of the Bolivar by Cormac F Lowt Eternal Father strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave Who bid’st the mighty ocean deep, It’s own appointed limits keep, O hear us when we cry to thee, For those in peril on the sea. The early months of the year 1947 were…
Morven Disaster. December, 1906. The Morven was bound from Portland, Oregon to Liverpool with a cargo of about three thousand tons of grain for the Messrs Bannatyne. The place where the wreck occurred is a little promontory locally known as “Horse Island”. The Morven was a splendid four masted ship of 2000 tons built about…
Demeray: Treasure Ship By Edward J Bourke First published in the Journal of the Wexford Historical Society 2008. Introduction The Demerary has survived in memory in the Kilmore area because of a tomb at Cill Park, Cullenstown. Moreover there were tales of treasure recovered after the wreck related by storytellers in more recent years. In…