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Water Transport in Ireland
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- Organisations

Cobh Heritage Centre Commissioners of Irish Lights Irish Coast Guard Irish Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources Irish Naval Service Maritime Institute of Ireland Minister of State (with special responsibility for the Marine) National Maritime Museum of Ireland National Maritime College of Ireland Naval Service Reserve

- Irish Mariners

William Bligh Brendan William Brown (admiral) Grace O'Malley John Barry (1745-1803) John de Courcy Ireland John Philip Holland

- History

Spanish Armada in Ireland

- Category:Lighthouses in the Republic of Ireland

- Category:Shipping companies of Ireland

P&O Irish Sea Irish Continental Irish Shipping Limited Swansea Cork Ferries Irish Ferries Irish Shipping Limited Limerick Steamship Company Palgrave Murphy Limited Stena Line Wexford Steamship Company

- Category:Ships of Ireland

Currach Galway Hooker

- - Category:Belfast built ships
  - Category:Merchant ships of Ireland

- - Category:Passenger ships of Ireland

- - Category:Irish Naval Service (up one level)

An initial list of articles of Irish Maritime interest

Organisations

Yacht clubs

Companies

ship build and scrap

Hammond Lane red

People

William Ahern (Medal of Honor recipient) aka William O'Hearn (1861-?) United States Navy
Thomas Andrews (shipbuilder):(1873–1912): shipbuilder of the RMS Titanic: Comber, County Down:File:Thomas Andrews ül.jpg
Alexander Armstrong (explorer): (1818-1899): naval surgeon:born Donegal
Augustus Warren Baldwin: (1776–1866) merchant navy captain & member of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada. He was a director of the Bank of Upper Canada and the British America Assurance Company. Although he had retired from the navy, he was promoted to admiral in 1862. : Lisnagat in County Cork
Robert Barber :(1749-1783): quartermaster on HMS Adventure (1771) during Captain Cook's Second Voyage: Kilkenny
John Barry (naval officer): (1745-1803) : Commodore and founder of the US Navy.: Born in Wexford.:
Edward Bransfield, Polar Explorer
Francis Beaufort - creator of the Beaufort scale for indicating wind force.
Hugh Talbot Burgoyne RN VC
William Bligh - Dublin Port, Bull Wall
Anne Bonny : pirate
Brendan:(c. 484 – c. 577): "the Navigator": Fenith:File:Saint brendan german manuscript.jpg
William Brown (admiral) - the father of the Argentine Navy. Born in Mayo
Hugh Talbot Burgoyne (1833-1870) RN VC
Michael Byrne (sailor) : able seaman with Captain Bligh on the Bounty.
Peter Campbell (1780-1832) - Urugayan Navy [17]
James Leander Cathcart : enslaved in Algiers.
Hugh Coveney - Minister for the Marine and noted yachtsman.
Roger Anthony Craig - Laser dinghy competitor
Harold Cudmore - yacht racing skipper
Tom Crean (explorer) File:Featured article star.svg
Andrew Cunningham First Sea Lord
John de Courcy Ireland - Research officer of the Maritime Institute of Ireland
Edward England (Edward Seegar) - pirate
Edward Fegen HMS Jervis Bay
Robert Forde polar explorer - stub
Damian Foxall : won the 2007/2008 Barcelona World Race
Robert Halpin : Master of the SS Great Eastern
David Harrel (1841-1939) Merchant navy, RIC, Under-Secretary for Ireland
Bartholomew Hayden : Brazil Navy [18]
Patrick Hayes (mariner) (1770-1856) director of the Marine Insurance Company, director of the Captains' Society; Harbor Master for the Port of Philadelphia
John Philip Holland - submarine inventor
Walter Kennedy (pirate) (?-1721):pirate

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Patrick Keohane - polar explorer
Lieutenant Commander John Kerans - The Yangtse River Incident [19]
John King (sailor) (1865–1938) Ballinrobe : United States Navy Medal of Honor twice.
Germyn Lynch (1441-1483) merchant sea captain
Patricio Lynch - Rear Admiral - Chilean navy
James Joseph Magennis VC
Richard Charles Mayne (1835 – 1892): RN Admiral and explorer
Kevin McClory (1926-2006) screenwriter, producer, and director. served in the British Merchant Navy in the Second World War. His ship was torpedoed on 21 February 1943, and he spent 14 days in a lifeboat
Robert McClure aka Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure (or M'Clure):(1807–1873): he was the first to transit the Northwest Passage, and the first to circumnavigate the Americas.: He was born at Wexford :File:Robert McClure.jpg
Charles McGuinness IRA, adventurer and sailor.
Thomas Murphy (VC) VC for sea rescue
Conor O'Brien (1880-1952) circumnavigation in the Saoirse
Jorge O'Brien - Captain of the Chilean Navy during the Chilean War of Independence [20]
Gráinne Ní Mháille (Grace O'Malley) - Pirate Queen
William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie:(1847–1924):shipbuilder:Born in Quebec, Canada, the son of Irish parents, he was taken back to Ireland when he was two years old and spent his childhood at Conlig, County Down:File:438825 aa17f8df.jpg
John Roach - Shipbuilder -
Captain Richard Roberts (1803-41) od SS Sirius (1837)
Ernest Shackleton - polar explorer
Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker : captain of the Australian Submarine HMAS AE2.
François Thurot real name O'Farrell, French naval captain who terrorised British shipping during the Seven Years' War.
Derek Turner (journalist) (1964-) :served in the Irish Navy : a freelance journalist.
Joseph Wheeler (shipbuilder) - shipbuilder
John Richardson Wigham - lighthouse Engineer
John Shaw (navy) (1773-1823) United States Navy
David Wilkins (sailor) : silver 1980 Moscow Olympics in the Flying Dutchman class
James Wilkinson (sailor) : silver 1980 Moscow Olympics in the Flying Dutchman class
Thomas Wright (1799-1868) - founder of the Ecuadorian naval school [21]

Grandparent rule

Molly Brown the Unsinkable Molly Brown was Born Molly Tobin (Irish born father)
Joseph Grégoire Cazy aka O'Casey:minister of the navy
Michael Healy - Captain of the US Revenue Cutter Bear, defender of Alaska's native Americans, inspiration for Jack London's "The Sea-Wolf," prominent figure in James Michener's "Alaska".
Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914) - US naval officer and author whose work, including "The Influence of Seapower Upon History, 1660-1783]]," inspired the creation of the modern United States Navy. (his father Dennis Hart Mahan may have been born in Ireland.
Ange René Armand, baron de Mackau aka McCoy :(1788-1855) :French naval officer, vice-admiral, minister of the navy :Paris, Irish family
Jeremiah O’Brien (1744–1818) : was in command of Unity when she captured HMS Margaretta in the Battle of Machias, the first naval battle of the American Revolutionary War.
Oliver Hazard Perry(1785–1819): US Navy in the War of 1812 against United Kingdom, and earned the title "Hero of Lake Erie" for leading American forces in a decisive naval victory at the Battle of Lake Erie: Irish mother, Sarah Wallace Alexander.^[1] :File:Operry.jpg
Matthew C. Perry (1794 – 1858) was the Commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854 : Irish mother, Sarah Wallace Alexander.^[2] : File:Perry1852LibraryOfCongress.jpg

Music

Legend

Selkie
Children of Lir
Lir sea god
Labraid Loingsech ("the exile, mariner")
Pikes on Cliffs story of William Simms

Histories

Events

North Channel Naval Duel
Spanish Armada in Ireland
Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster
The Sinking of the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales
1979 Fastnet race
Sandycove lifeboat disaster of 1821

Routes

Islands

List of islands in the Irish Sea

Places

Types

Ships

Modern

Historic Ships

HMS A5
Asgard (yacht) : Howth gun-running
Asgard II : sail trainer
Aud (ship) : Casement gunrunning
Audacious (UK): Sunk near Northern Ireland by a mine laid by the Berlin

Catalpa rescue : Fenian rescue
RMS Celtic (1901) - largest passenger ship 1901-1905
RMS Connaught (1897) - sunk 3 March 1917 by U-48
RMS Carpathia torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on July 17, 1918 off the east coast

Demerary - sank 1819 with gold bulion off Kilmore - [25]
Dunbrody (1845)
Dunbrody (2001)

RMS Empress of Britain (1931) torpedoed by U-32 28 October 1940 off the cost of Ireland.

Innisfallen 4 ships

RMS Leinster, the Dublin to Holyhead mailboat, torpedoed and sunk by U-boat UB-123,

commanded by Oberleutnant Robert Ramm, on 10th October, 1918, four miles east of the Kish

light. 501 people were lost, the greatest single loss of life at sea in the Irish Sea

RMS Lusitania

RNLB Mary Stanford

Ouzel Galley
PS Queen Victoria (1838)
Ranga (ship)
Stephen Whitney (ship)
Tayleur ran on rocks and sank off Lambay Island circa five miles from Dublin Bay - 276 died
Titanic
U-260 Scuttled at 2230hrs on 12 March, 1945 south of Ireland, in position 51.15N, 09.05W,

after being mined at 80 meters depth. Whole crew interned in Curragh Camp, 48 survivors