This article offers no conclusions or answers, and is only designed to record some unusual archaeological features within a beautiful bay, which seem to have been forgotten and their use gone unrecorded. One wonders, just how old they are? Suggestions please.
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Concrete Ships
Irish shipyards Warrenpoint – Concrete ships Cretefield During the First world war a shortage of steel developed as replacements were being built for the huge tonnage sunk by submarines. Steel was prioritised for construction of warships. Late in the war the USA envisaged a fleet of concrete ships but few were completed before the war… Continue reading Concrete Ships
“This Island Nation” – New Radio Program
This Island Nation on Community Radio Youghal From January 2014, a new monthly radio program “This Island Nation” is being broadcast by Community Radio Youghal (C.R.Y104fm). It will be available on the radio station, on their website www.cry104fm.com and on CRAOL (which makes it available to other community radio stations. “This Island Nation” will be… Continue reading “This Island Nation” – New Radio Program
Maritime Heritage Gathering
Report off the Maritime Heritage Gathering held 29-30 October 2013 (by Richard McCormick) along with the working group recommendations. Click here for the report in PDF format
Smuggling in the eighteenth and early nineteenth Century
The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are described as the golden age of smuggling.
Dublin Port Diving Bell
Engineering by Cormac F. Lowth This article was first published in The International Journal of Diving History, Volume 3, Number 1, July 2010 The restored bell In the nineteenth century, several factors combined, which both facilitated and necessitated the expansion of the Port of Dublin. The seaward approaches to Dublin Port have always been hazardous… Continue reading Dublin Port Diving Bell
Raising the Astrid
The 42-metre, 250 ton Dutch-owned brig sank when she suffered engine
failure and went on rocks between Oysterhaven and Kinsale on 24-9-2013.
Strong tides and winds drove the sailing ship on the rocks despite the
desperate efforts of its skipper Pieter de Kam, and his Belgian crew. Seven
crew and 23 sail trainees from five countries were rescued in one of the
biggest operations ever mounted by the RNLI and Irish Coastguard.
Leinster
U-boats sink the Mail-Boat and Many More in the Irish Channel The Atlantic Gateway Jim Phelan 1941 When ships crossed the channel between Ireland and England during WW1, they were attacked and sunk by German submarines. The loss of ships, Irish or not, with civilians, service men and women, was not only condemned by those… Continue reading Leinster
Print of Asgard II – An update
Print of Asgard II – an ideal Gift
Lord Cloncurry and the Aid
The AID with a valuable cargo of Roman sculptures sank at Killiney. This tells of Lord Cloncurry, his life and the loss of the AID