Reference Desk
This is a list of articles of Irish Maritime interest on (mostly) external sites.
In general, Wikipedia, the on-line encyclopedia is used
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Maritime Organisations
People
Ports
East coast
Republic of Ireland
Northern Ireland
North coast
West coast
Republic of Ireland
South coast
Ships
Designs
Events
- The Collosion of the Connemara and the Retreiver 3 November 1916, 97 lost Wikipedia
- Baralong Incident - Q-ship sunk U-27 dishonourably - Wikipedia
- The Betelgeuse incident- Oil tanker fire in Bantry Bay, 50 lost -
Wikipedia
- The Brendan Voyage c.500AD - Wikipedia
- The sinking of the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales - 19 November1807 - 400 lost
MII
- Kingstown Lifeboat Disaster - 24 December 1895 - 15 lost Wikipedia
- Kowloon Bridge - 20 November 1986 - West Cork oil pollution Wikipedia
- MV Princess Victoria - 31 January 1953 - sank in North Channel, 133 lost
Wikipedia
- PS Queen Victoria 15 February 1853 sank at Bailey Lighthouse 80 lost
Wikipedia
- Penlee lifeboat disaster, the Union Star and the Solomon Brownelifeboat sank, 16 lost 19 December 1981
Wikipedia
Naval
Active
Decommissioned
Historic
- Great Eastern - World's largest passenger ship 1858 – 1867 - Wikipedia
- Luisitania sunk bu U-20 7 May 1915 1,198 lost Atlantic Liners (J. Kent Layton) &
Wikipedia
- Ouzel Galley - left Dublin 1695 captured by pirates, crew retook their ship & returned 1698
Irish Ships (Aidan McCabe)
- RMS Leinster - sunk by UB-123 10 Octber 1918, over 500 lost -Irish Ships (Aidan McCabe)
- RMS Titanic - sank 14 April 1912 1,517 lost - Wikipedia
- Asgard - howth gun-running - Wikipedia
- A5 - Explosion on submarine A5 in Cobh in 1905 16 February 1905 - 6 lost -
MII
- Demerary - sank 1819 with gold bulion off Kilmore - MII
- Innisfallen - five ships called Innisfallen - Wikipedia
- RMS Celtic - largest passenger ship 1901-1905 - Wikipedia
- RMS Connaught - sunk 3 March 1917 by U-48 - Wikipedia
- RMS Tayleur - "the first Titantic" sunk 21 January 1854 Lambay 380 lost
Wikipedia
- AUD - Casement gunrunning Cork Shipwrecks (M Keniry)
- Catalpa - Fenian rescue Wikipedia
- Petrel Lightvessel, now Club House of the Down Cruising Club Wikipedia
- Puffin Lightvessel, sank 8 October 1896, 8 lost Wikipedia &
Cork Shipwrecks (M Keniry)
- Osprey Lightvessel, now Le Batofar, a night-club on the Seine, Paris Wikipedia
Emergency
- Irish Oak sunk in mid-Atlantic U-607 on 15 May 1943 Wikipedia
- MV Kerlogue - exemplar of neutral Irish ships during World War Two
Wikipedia
- ST Leukos - sunk by U-38 on 9 March 1940 - Wikipedia
- Cymric - lost Bay of Biscay, January 1944 - Wikipedia
- U-260 - 12 March 1945 scuttled ay Glandore and crew interned Wikipedia
Modern
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LifeBoats
Lighthouses
Landmarks