THE ROMAN WRECKS OF LAKE NEMI By Cormac F. Lowth. There is a small lake called Nemi in the Alban Hills, about 30 kilometers southeast of Rome. Between 1927 and 1933, two enormous wooden ships, which once belonged to the Emperor Caligula, and had lain on the bottom of the Lake for over nineteen hundred…
Tram and schooner collide at Ringsend – © Edward J Bourke, prepared for the Dublin Historical Record 2009. Few stories have been mentioned so often with so much confusion than the tale of the collision between a sailing ship and a tram at Ringsend bridge. There have been several errors repeated and one discovery has…
The Argentine Republic Emigration Scheme Peter Mulvany On Friday 25th January 1889, the SS DRESDEN left the Deepwater Quay, Queenstown / Cobh, bound for Buenos Aires, with 1772 emigrants onboard 1500 of whom were Irish including the McCarthy family from Ballyclough, County Cork. The DRESDEN subsequently arrived in Buenos Aires on the 15th February 1889, and our family entered Argentina through the immigrants’ hotel located…
Pomona, emigrant ship, 389 died by Edward Bourke Pomona (1181 tons) was wrecked on a sandbank off Ballyconigar on 28-4-1859. Three hundred and eighty nine people lost their lives. “Since Sunday morning, we experienced severe gales from the SSE with a heavy fall of rain on Wednesday night, which continues with but little intermission”. The gale…
Tayleur was lost at Lambay This article discusses the shipwreck of the Tayleur. For its dimensions and construction: see Tayleur was lost at Lambay. For a review of the book see: “Bound for Australia”. For the Tayleur Medals, see Tayleur fund for the succour of shipwrecked strangers The sailing ship Tayleur was lost at Lambay just north of Dublin on…
Maritime Art and Dún Laoghaire MARITIME ART AND DUN LAOGHAIRE by Cormac F. Lowth. cormaclowth@utvinternet.com Illustrated talk given to the Dún Laoghaire Borough Historical Society on Feb. 21st. 2007. and to the Matitime Institute of Ireland on 20th. March 2008, at Stella Maris Seafarers’ Club I am indebted to a great many people who helped me to put this talk…
‘Drowned like rats’ The torpedoing of Arandora Star off the Donegal Coast, 2 July 1940 Michael Kennedy (difp at iol.ie) This paper is a revised version of ‘Men that came in with the sea’ which appeared in History Ireland in 2008. The torpedoing of the Blue Star Line’s 15,000-ton luxury liner Arandora Star off Bloody Foreland, Donegal on 2 July 1940…
The wanderer at Kingstown and John Masefield THE WANDERER AT KINGSTOWN By Cormac F. Lowth The great man-made harbour of Dun Laoghaire, formerly Kingstown, was conceived and built as a harbour of refuge for sailing ships in distress in Dublin Bay and although it fulfilled this function reasonably well for many decades after completion, it…
Old Dublin society talk Pearse St Library at 7.30. pm on Wed 21st Nov 2007. Edward J Bourke Napoleonic wars From the time of the French revolution in 1789 to Waterloo in 1815 there was nearly constant war between Britain and France. The battle of Trafalgar occurred in 1805. This coincided with the third coalition…
U-35 in Dingle during WW2 Ireland’s Close Encounter with German U-Boat By Denis Martin FTU At 4pm on the afternoon of Wednesday the 4th October 1939 the realities of World War 2 reached the shores of the Dingle Peninsula. The residents of Ballymore, a fishing village 3 miles west of Dingle, noticed a strange craft…
