HMS Audacious | An Early Casualty in the Great War
HMS Audacious – Stuck a mine and sank off Donegal, Ireland – 27th October 1914 HMS Audacious, built in 1912, was a…
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The Long and Illustrious Career of RMS Olympic
On this day – 20th October 1910 – the RMS Olympic was launched. RMS Olympic was the first of the three magnificent sisters…
SS Arabic: Bound for America, sunk off Kinsale (1915)
The impressive SS Arabic was built in the Belfast shipyards of Harland and Wolff for the illustrious White Star Line. She was…
20th July 1918 | SS Justicia Sinks off Malin Head after Sustained Attack
On the 20th July 1918, after a grueling 22 hour assault involving two separate U-boats, the SS Justicia finally succumbed and went…
Dazzle Camouflage | Grand Design to Fool the Enemy at Sea
Believe it or not, these surreal pictures below aren’t photoshopped or part of some art project. These are examples of the beautiful…
Remembering the HMHS Britannic – lost 21st November 1916
The Britannic was the last of the great Olympic class liners to be built by the White Star Line in the famed…
Bell from SS Laurentic that tragically sank off Donegal sold at auction
A bell salvaged from the wreck of the SS Laurentic which was sunk by German mines at the mouth of Lough Swilly…
Commemorating the loss of the Dublin Port ships SS Hare and SS Adela
On the Saturday (30th September) two plaques will be unveiled at Sean O’ Casey Bridge, Dublin to commemorate the centenary of the…
Cold Sweat | Donegal Family realise Beachcombing Find is actually World War Explosive
A Donegal family got more than they bargained for when it turned out their leisurely beachcombing efforts meant they had brought an…
100 Years On | Commemorating Arrival of US Naval Destroyers into Cobh
On the 4th May 1917, less than a month after America entered the war, six US Naval Destroyers arrived in Queenstown (now…
Notice Board | Descendants of Passengers and Crew of RMS Leinster sought for Centenary Event
Next year will mark the centenary of the sinking of the RMS Leinster, one of Ireland’s worst maritime disasters and the single…
HMS Caroline visitor centre opens as Battle of Jutland remembered
Descendants of Irish soldiers lost in the First World War will gather on Alexandra Docks in Belfast today for a commemorative ceremony…