March 2017 – Newry Man Lost

FLASHBACKS OF FISHER’S COAL YARD NEWRY / NEWRY MAN LOST

15th March 201722nd January 2021 Sean#Cargo, #History, #Ireland, #newrymanlost, #Ships0 comment

Have a look back at Fisher’s coal yard circa 1980’s Joseph Fisher established a coal importing business on the opposite side of the basin in 1852 purchasing his first vessel, the elderly brigantine “Brothers” in 1867. From a few small schooners and brigantines the fleet expanded into one of the best-known steam collier fleets operating in Great Britain and Ireland. These little steamers or “coasters” could be found sailing throughout Britain, Ireland and the continent. Initially called after town lands, Newry ships were later identifiable by the fact that they…

History

A WHILE AGO IN WARRENPOINT PORT / NEWRY MAN LOST

7th March 201722nd January 2021 Sean#Cargo, #History, #Ireland, #newrymanlost, #Port, #Ships, #Warrenpoint0 comment

The Warrenpoint Port images contained in this gallery came from an undeveloped roll of film found in the back of a filing cabinet drawer In Fishers coal yard Newry. The film was discovered while clearing out Fishers offices after shutting its doors for the last time. The original Port of Warrenpoint, consisting of a wet dock and piers, was constructed in the late 1770′s by Roger Hall, Robert Ross and Isaac Corry with the assistance of £500 of public funds. In 1919 the heirs of Roger Hall sold the Port…

History

THE ASGARD / NEWRY MAN LOST

5th March 201722nd January 2021 Sean#Dublin, #History, #Ireland, #newrymanlost0 comment

Shortly before noon on a hot, blue-skied Sunday morning in July 1914, a white sail floated out from behind Lambay Island and began to nonchalantly make its way towards the small port of Howth, writes historian Turtle Bunbury. Asgard was on the home straight from one of the most daring gunrunning missions in modern history. At the helm was Erskine Childers, the best-selling spy novelist of the day. Over the previous three weeks, he had skippered the two-masted yacht out to meet a German tugboat in the North Sea…

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