The U.S. Brig Niagara has left Erie for a month-long journey to Maine for extensive repairs. The ship will not return in time ...

The town of Cohasset commemorates the story of the Brig St. John, an immigrant ship that wrecked less than a mile off the Cohasset coast. More than 90 Irish immigrants perished. Today, there is a ...

The captain abandoned the sinking ship and its nearly 200 passengers ... his ancestor had saved. He typed in “Brig Hannah” and up popped the Irish America article. If he had waited a few ...

On October 7, 1849, the Irish brig St. John wrecked off of the coast ... "There’s a whole section of the museum with a replica of the ship," said Kathy O’Malley, president of the Cohasset ...

The ship had a fairly safe passage ... This was really the first significant memorial to the Irish victims of famine.” Shannon feels the tragedy of the Brig St. John, and the harshness and ...

Jim Hall, site administrator for the Erie Maritime Museum, where the Niagara is docked, said he's hoping that the Niagara will be back in Erie to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary celebration ...

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The owner of the tall ship Astrid, which sank off the west Cork ... compass and binnacle had disappeared from the deck of the 95-year-old brig which sank near Kinsale on July 24th, and it was ...

Some 30 people – 24 Irish and European trainees and six ... involved in this complex casualty”. It says the brig-rigged ship anchored in Oysterhaven on the afternoon of July 23rd, with a ...