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Commemoration 20 November 2016

The 2016 Annual National Commemoration Services For Irish Seafarers will be held at 12 noon on Sunday 20 November 2016, at the City Quay Memorial to Irish Seafarers.
At 2pm there will be an ecumenical service in the National Maritime Museum, conducted by Fr. Pat Mernagh CF, army chaplain and Rev. William Black port chaplain. Refreshments will then be served

Lecture 3Nov16

“The Road to Rio Paralympic Sailing”-An illustrated lecture by Dr Austin O’Carroll will take place on Thursday 3 November (20:00hrs) at the Poolbeg Yacht & Boat Club, Ringsend, Dublin 4. There will be an entry fee of €5 in aid of the charity organisation, Safetynet, instead of our usual RNLI.

Lecture13Oct16

In his illustrated lecture, Dermot Cronin of Malahide Yacht Club, will bring us the inside story of how his son Paddy and himself won the Double-handed division of the 2015 Middle Sea Race in their yacht Encore, a First 40.7. Apart from the tactical challenges, it was an energy–sapping race with frequent sail-changing and variable winds reaching 42kts+.

Ireland’s Mercantile Marine during the Second World War

[lugite 1 author=”Forde” book=”The Long Watch”/] [lugite 2 author=”Fisk” book=”In Time of War” page=”273″ quote=”“Up to four huge tricolours were painted on the sides of each ship together with the word EIRE in letters twenty feet high””/] [lugite 3 author=”Gleichauf” book=”Unsung Sailors” page=”115″ quote=”“… remembered what they had heard in training: never expect another ship… Continue reading Ireland’s Mercantile Marine during the Second World War

Lecture 26Apr16 Cormac Lowth

Maritime Institute of Ireland Aud wreck © John Collins photography Illustrated Lecture The Roles of the Aud and the Helga in the 1916 rising Tuesday 26 April 2016 19:30 by Cormac F Lowth at Maritime Museum Dún Laoghaire Admission free – All welcome Helga. The story of the ‘Helga’, from her launch in Dublin in… Continue reading Lecture 26Apr16 Cormac Lowth

New Article, by Joe Ryan: Irish Shipping Ltd. and the Ministry of Supplies

This article has been written to give people a sense of conditions in Ireland during the early years of the “Emergency” which existed in Ireland from 1939 and the urgent need for shipping which brought about the formation of Irish Shipping Ltd. In condensing a journal of 200 close typewritten pages much detail can be lost but I have taken great pains to reproduce each commodity named so you will understand where the most want occurred. I have learned great respect for the Minister, his Department, the officials of Irish Shipping, their Officers and Crew many of whom paid the ultimate price, with their lives, so we would have the necessities of life at a very turbulent time for our young Nation and the World.

Lecture 14 April 2016

Glenua Sailing Centre Aud wreck © John Collins photography www.glenua.com Maritime Aspects of The 1916 Rising by Dr. Edward Bourke Thursday 14 April 2016 20:00 at Poolbeg Yacht & Boat Club Ringsend Entry €5 (in aid of RNLI) Glenua Sailing Centre Helga. Edward Bourke is an industrial microbiologist recently retired from brewery research. He is… Continue reading Lecture 14 April 2016