{"id":776,"date":"2024-03-22T14:07:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/?p=776"},"modified":"2024-03-25T14:40:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T14:40:07","slug":"dublin-shipyards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/2024\/03\/22\/dublin-shipyards\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin Shipyards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-7977\" class=\"post-7977 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-engineering tag-dublin tag-liffey tag-ringsend tag-roskilde tag-ship-building tag-shipyard tag-viking tag-wood-quay\">\n<h2 class=\"entry-title post-title\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Dublin Shipyards<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"post-entry\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Irish Shipbuilding<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Three tables accompany this article:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">List of Ships built in Dublin<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shipbuilders in Dublin<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maritime trades in Dublin 1761<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maps were extracted from the Rocque map of 1756 available from the<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Harvard Geospatial Library<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title post-title\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Shipbuilders in Dublin<\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"mylefttub\">\n<div style=\"width: 424px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"border: #000000 6px outset;\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201113082235im_\/http:\/\/lugnad.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/engineering\/dublinships\/site%20of%20viking%20shipyard-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Street furniture commemorating viking shipbuilding\" width=\"414\" height=\"309\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Street furniture commemorating viking shipbuilding<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Miscellaneous Dublin yards<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">While the main shipbuilding in Dublin Involved the Liffey yard, later Vickers, and Ross &amp; Walpole several early yards have disappeared without trace.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Viking shipbuilding<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">During construction work a Viking shipbuilding area was discovered on Dublin quays near the civic offices at Wood Quay. The site is marked by a bronze representation of a Viking ship<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>There is speculation based on ring analysis and carbon dating that one of the Roskilde (Denmark) boats was built at Dublin.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"myrighttub\">\n<div style=\"width: 418px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"border: #000000 6px outset;\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201113082235im_\/http:\/\/lugnad.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/engineering\/dublinships\/3-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"shipbuilding in Dublin, 1870\" width=\"408\" height=\"238\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">site of shipbuilding<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Yards in 1761<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Lloyds register for 1761 lists ships built at Dublin from Murphy\u2019s Cardiffs Kehoes, Kinchs. At the time there were two yards at Georges quay and another two at Sir J Rogersons Quay<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>North Strand<\/strong>The brigantine Thompson burthen 65 tons will be sold to the highest bidder on 19 February next. The inventory may be seen at the secretary\u2019s office at the shipbuildings on the North Strand. Faulkners Dublin journal 24-1-1740.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Ferry point\u00a0<\/strong>A reference in Faulkners Dublin Journal describes a location on17-6-1740 as Flanagan\u2019s public house at the ferryboat at the shipbuilding<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>Archibold &amp; Howard Moore<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 The 1753 Wilson\u2019s directory Archibiold &amp; Howard lists Moore Shipwrights at Georges Quay<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7999\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\">\n<div id=\"attachment_7999\" style=\"width: 443px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7999\" class=\"wp-image-7999 \" style=\"border: #000000 6px outset;\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201113082235im_\/http:\/\/lugnad.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/engineering\/dublinships\/ringsend-graving-dock-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ringsend Graving Dock\" width=\"433\" height=\"325\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7999\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ringsend Graving Dock, currently occupied by the Naomh Eanna<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">1800s<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Slipway at Blackhall Place\u00a0<\/strong>Before the Liffey was enclosed by walls about 1820 a considerable slipway is mapped at Blackhall place.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Ringsend foundry\u00a0<\/strong>In 1829 the Ringsend Foundry built engines for the Marchioness of Welesley<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>A list of Maritime trades in Dublin 1761,<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">gleaned from the Almanack Registry Dublin, in the Gilbert Library, Pearse Street<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000080;\">Dublin Shipbuilding<\/span><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_7990\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\">\n<div id=\"attachment_7990\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7990\" class=\"wp-image-7990 size-full\" style=\"border: #000000 6px outset;\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201113082235im_\/http:\/\/lugnad.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/engineering\/dublinships\/dublin-dockyards-ad.jpg\" alt=\"Dublin Dockyards advert\" width=\"448\" height=\"281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7990\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dublin Dockyards advert<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">By 1796, there were three Graving Docks were available on the south side in the Grand Canal Basin in Ringsend, the largest 180 by 60 feet. One was closed in 1851 and the space used as a coal yard. The Dublin Dockyard Company had a lease on the basins from 1851 until 1881 and managed the two smaller graving docks. Vickers (Ireland) was a subsidiary of Vickers-Armstrong Ltd, but according to Miramar they launched their ships under the Dublin Vickers name on the north side of the Liffey.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ringsend Dockyard (Dublin) Limited in the Grand Canal Basin was identified as McMullan\u2019s by many and the boats built here were known as McMullan boats, after the company\u2019s main director and chief builder. This company built all kinds of floating craft in steel and wood and were also ship repairers and manufacturers of steel for constructions. In their advert they point out that they have two private dry docks, one 150 feet long the other 90 feet long.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Graving Dock on the North Wall, completed in 1860, measured 412 by 70 ft (21m), and could accommodate the Holyhead Paddle Steamer. This dock was in use almost continuously until 1989 when it was filled in but in the late 1990s was fitted with new lock gates and re-opened, but filled in again in 2008. Another Dock of 630 by 80 ft was built and became operational in 1957 and was filled in 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Glimpses of activity<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">In 1753 Wilson\u2019s directory records Archibiold &amp; Howard Moore Shipwrights at Georges Quay. The brigantine, Thompson burthen 65 tons will be sold to the highest bidder on 19 February next. The inventory may be seen at the secretary\u2019s office at the shipbuildings on the North Strand. Records Faulkners Dublin journal 24-1-1740<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Some of the old Ringsend boat yards were still in operation after the WW2. Murphy\u2019s closed down when O\u2019Rahilly House was built about 1950. It was from slipways on the Dodder that the legendary Ouzel Galley set sail in 1695 on its voyage to the Mediterranean and everlasting fame. Tracing facts about this event has proved elusive and the veracity of the tale may be a concoction of other stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"myrighttub\">\u201cShipbuilding\u201d is Old Abbey Street<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Ringsend Dockyard Company (known as McMillan\u2019s) and Vickers (Ireland) Ltd. (which at a later stage was known as the Liffey Dockyard Company) built up to 48 steel motor canal boats for the Grand Canal Company in the 1920s. The first one 31M was built by the Ringsend Dockyard Company (1913-1963) Ross &amp; Walpole built most of the second fleet of barges for Guinness, numbers 12 through 21. They also built boilers and engines, architectural frames and features for buildings, large metal tanks (as seen in Lockes of Kilbeggan in 1887), railway wagons and bridges, including the swivel predecessor to the McMahon Bridge in 1900, but some of this work was at a second site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">References<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0Grand canal of Ireland Ruth Delaney<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Liffey in Dublin J.W. De Courcey<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Liffey ships &amp; shipbuilding, Pat Sweeney, Mercier 2010.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Anderson, E. B. Sailing Ships of Ireland (1951)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Anthony Marmion, The ancient and modern ports of Ireland pp 415, 534, 559, 572<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Irish Sea McLaughlin &amp; Appleby<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Ireland\u2019s Inland waterways Ruth Delaney<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cA History of the Port of Dublin\u201d, by H. A. Gilligan, published by Gill and Macmillan in 1988<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Shipbuilding Smellie<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDublin Waters: the Liffey, the canals and the port\u201d, on the National Archives of Ireland website<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">http:\/\/dublin.iwai.ie\/graving_docks.html<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_7981\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7981\" style=\"border: #000000 6px outset;\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201113082235im_\/http:\/\/lugnad.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/engineering\/dublinships\/naomh-eanna-two.jpg\" alt=\"Naomh Eanna in Hanover Dock, now in the graving dock\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7981\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naomh Eanna in Hanover Dock, now in the graving dock.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Naomh-Eanna-Trust\/211241455563057?sk=info&amp;tab=overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for details of the campaign to rescue her<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7982\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7983\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7983\" style=\"border: #000000 6px outset;\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201113082235im_\/http:\/\/lugnad.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/engineering\/dublinships\/port-larige-saltmills-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Port Larige at Saltmills\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7983\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Port Larige decaying at Saltmills, Co Wexford<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"navigation\">\n<div class=\"next\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin Shipyards Irish Shipbuilding Three tables accompany this article: List of Ships built in Dublin Shipbuilders in Dublin Maritime trades in Dublin 1761 Maps were extracted from the Rocque map of 1756 available from the Harvard Geospatial Library Shipbuilders in Dublin Miscellaneous Dublin yards While the main shipbuilding in Dublin Involved the Liffey yard, later<span class=\"post-excerpt-end\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/2024\/03\/22\/dublin-shipyards\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}