Lines of the Tayleur THE LINES OF TAYLEUR By Cormac F. Lowth. This article discusses the dimensions and construction of the Tayleur For the shipwreck: see Tayleur was lost at Lambay. For the Tayleur Medals, see Tayleur fund for the succour of shipwrecked strangers Tayleur from pre-launch advertisement There are few divers on the east coast of Ireland who…
S.S. Luimenach Able Seaman M Carrol died later of pneumonia. On 4 Sep, 1940, the unescorted and neutral Luimneach (Master Eric Septimus Jones) was stopped by U-46 with two shots across her bow west-southwest of the Scilly Isles and was sunk at 20.00 hours by gunfire. There are differences in the accounts given by the…
SS City of Bremen At 6pm on 2 June 1940, The City of Bremen (Saorstait and Continental Lines) was transporting grain from Lisbon to Dublin when she was bombed by a Junkers 88 bomber and sunk. The crew were rescued by a Spanish fishing trawler. One of the crew, George Gerrassimoff, was Russian. It was feared that…
Loss of Emigrant Ship Exmouth In 1847, During the Great Hunger, the Brig Exmouth left Derry (Londonderry) for Quebec. Rather than sailing west across the Atlantic, a gale blew her east and she was wrecked on the island of Islay, off the coast of Scotland. There were only three survivors. She was registered for 165½ passengers (two…
S.S. Ardmore The SS Ardmore left Cork on 11 November 1940, bound for Fishguard with a cargo of livestock. She never arrived. The wreck was located in 1995, south of the Saltees, with massive damage near her engine room. A defensive string of mines had been laid across the entrance of the Bristol channel. They were intended…
Audacious Secret Vital Secret 27th October 1914: This was a fateful day for the Royal Navy. This is the kernel of this article and the date had its 100th anniversary recently. I will expand on this later. 28th June 1914: The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on this day was the immediate reason given for WW1 but sabre…
S.S. Meath Mined and Sunk in Irish Sea – 16th August 1940 – three wounded
APOSTLESHIP OF THE SEA (Stella Maris) by Rose Kearney The Apostleship of the Sea (affectionately known as Stella Maris to seafarers in approximately 60 countries (many with multiple ports) From humble beginnings in Glasgow in 1895, the organisation has endeavoured to create a home from home atmosphere for seafarers. Stella Maris has a presence in Dublin…
John Richardson Wigham on this page, most images will enlarge if clicked. Many if the artifacts are in the National Maritime Museum of Ireland, Dún Laoghaire. Many of the drawings are from Thomas Tag’s book “Brilliance and Prejudice” Here is a YouTube video of a museum guide relating this story John Richardson Wigham(15 January 1829…
R.M.S. Titanic She was the largest ship in the world at the time She was proclaimed unsinkable She collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage The element of Greek tragedy If only she heeded the 7 ice warnings, she received on the day of the sinking If only she had slowed down…
