User:Lugnad/maritime
Propose Categories & Content[edit]
- Water Transport in Ireland
- Organisations
- People - irish mariners
- History
- Lighthouses
- Ships
- Belfast
- Merchant
- Ferries & Passenger
- Irish Naval Service
Categories in need of creation and or deletion[edit]
- Category:Water transport in the Republic of Ireland
- Organisations
- Irish Mariners
- History
- Category:Lighthouses in the Republic of Ireland
- Category:Shipping companies of Ireland
Categories with Content[edit]
- 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
- History
- Category:Irish Naval Service (up one level)
An initial list of articles of Irish Maritime interest[edit]
Categories[edit]
- Category:Water transport in the Republic of Ireland
Organisations[edit]
- Bord Iascaigh Mhara - Irish Fisheries Board
- Cobh Heritage Centre
- Canoeing Ireland [1]
- Commissioners of Irish Lights
- Cruising Association of Ireland [2]
- Customs & Excise - Irish Revenue
- Department of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources
- Irish Coast Guard
- Irish Exporters Association [Irish Exporters Association]
- Irish Federation Of Sea Anglers [3]
- Irish Institute of Master Mariners [4]
- Irish Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources
- Irish Naval Service
- Irish Sailing Association [5]
- Irish Sea Kayaking Association [6]
- Irish Underwater Council [7]
- Irish Water Safety Association [8]
- Irish Maritime Development Office [9]
- Marine and Coastwatching Service red
- Maritime Institute of Ireland [10]
- Mercantile Marine Office (MMO) [11]
- Minister of State (with special responsibility for the Marine)
- National Maritime Museum of Ireland
- National Maritime College of Ireland
- Naval Service Reserve
- Royal National Lifeboat Institution (Ireland) RNLI
- Seaman's Union of Ireland : [12]
- The Marine Institute [13]
- The Marine Survey Office [14]
- Seascapes
- Stella Maris [15]
- Waterways Ireland
- Irish Water Safety Association : [16]
Yacht clubs[edit]
- Royal St. George Yacht Club
- Glenans Ireland
- Irish national sailing club
- Lough Ree Yacht Club
- National Yacht Club
- Royal Cork Yacht Club
- Royal Irish Yacht Club
- Royal St. George Yacht Club
- Sailing in Dublin Club
Companies[edit]
- Harland and Wolff
- British and Irish Steam Packet Company
- City of Dublin Steam Packet Company
- Dublin Shipping
- Irish Ferries
- Irish Shipping Limited
- Limerick Steamship Company
- Palgrave Murphy Limited
- Stena Line
- Stena Line's ship history
- Wexford Steamship Company
- Norfolkline
- P&O Irish Sea
- SeaCat
- Townsend Thoresen
- Fyffes Line
ship build and scrap[edit]
- Hammond Lane red
People[edit]
- 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
- File:Captain_Dulaien_Flag.svg
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
Legend[edit]
- Selkie
- Children of Lir
- Lir sea god
- Labraid Loingsech ("the exile, mariner")
- Pikes on Cliffs story of William Simms
Histories[edit]
Events[edit]
- 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[edit]
Islands[edit]
Places[edit]
- Bangor Marina
- Bantry Bay
- Cork Harbour
- Daunt Rock
- Dublin Bay
- Dublin Port
- Fanad
- Fastnet Rock
- Galley Head stub
- Galway Bay
- Haulbowline
- Irish Sea
- Kish Bank
- Lough Beltra
- Lough Foyle
- Old Head of Kinsale
- Passage West
- Port of Belfast
- River Liffey
- River Shannon
- Rockabill
- Rockall
- Skellig Rock
- Tearaght Island
- Tuskar Rock
- Whiddy Island
Types[edit]
Ships[edit]
Modern[edit]
- MV Isle of Inishmore
- MDV1200 class fast ferry
- MS Oscar Wilde
- MS Stena Scandinavica (1973)
- MV Ulysses
- MS Stena Adventurer
- MS Stena Nordica (2009)
- MS Stena Nautica
- HSC Stena Lynx III
- MV Canna
- MS Stena Caledonia
- MV Princess Victoria
- Lord Rank(N.I.) sail trainer
- Creidne(I.N.S.) sail trainer
Historic Ships[edit]
- 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
- 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
- MV Kerlogue - the exemplar of neutral Irish ships during World War Two.
- ST Leukos - fishing trawler, lost with all hands
INS Vessels[edit]
- LÉ Aoife (P22)
- LÉ Aisling (P23)
- LÉ Banba (CM11)
- LÉ Ciara (P42)
- LÉ Cliona (03)
- LÉ Deirdre (P20)
- LÉ Eithne (P31)
- LÉ Emer (P21)
- LÉ Fola (CM12)
- LÉ Grainne (CM10)
- LÉ Macha (01)
- LÉ Maev (02)
- Muirchú
- LÉ Niamh (P52)
- LÉ Orla (P41)
- LÉ Róisín (P51)
ISL Vessels[edit]
- Irish Alder
- Irish Ash
- Irish Beech
- Irish Blackthorn
- Irish Cedar
- Irish Elm
- Irish Fir
- Irish Hawthorn
- Irish Hazel
- Irish Holly
- Irish Larch
- Irish Maple
- SS Irish Oak - sunk in controversial circumstances, mid-Atlantic
- Irish Pine
- Irish Plane
- Irish Poplar
- Irish Rose
- Irish Rowan
- Irish Spruce
- Irish Rose
- Irish Willow
Buildings[edit]
Lighthouses[edit]
Just refer to this list
Images[edit]
- Image:Naval Jack of Ireland.svg
- Image:Irish Seamens Memorial.png
- Irish Coast Guard helicopter
- Image needed of Asgard II
- Image:Iarthair Chorcaí 044.jpg Anchor from the French Armada of 1796, discovered off northeast of Whiddy island, Bantry Bay, 1981
