Research

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Research

The Tides and Tales Maritime Community Project currently has about 500 free-to-access blogs or primary research pieces, on the local maritime heritage available. All of this is free and available to the public and we have plans for much more.

The project also receives requests on a weekly basis for further information. Some research queries relate to the blogs already written, and others require further research, including linking with third parties to try and find satisfactory responses.

If you need further or more detailed research, including the references, either on an existing blog or any matter related to the maritime history of the Waterford area or beyond we would be happy to receive such requests.  However, in order to sustain the project we would need to charge a research fee. 

If you have a research question please contact our Coordinator through the contact page on our site.  The Coordinator will assess the query and let you know the query type and cost.  For example: 

€20 – Basic Query – supplying information already to hand, or easy to access.

€50 – Intermediate Query – This could be defined as a question requiring further research and time. 

€90 – Advanced Query – This relates to queries that require reaching out to relevant third parties. 

All funds so raised will go towards sustaining the Tides and Tales Maritime Community Project and making it possible to provide the blogs and this valuable resource material.

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Freney the River Pirate

Many of you will have heard of Freney the Highwayman, but Freney the river pirate?  That's certainly a new one for me. Freney the Highwayman, Freney the Robber, James Freney the noblest highwayman in Ireland. These are just three of the titles I have encountered that...

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SS Torridon rescue Jan 8th 1890

SS Torridon rescue Jan 8th 1890

On the 8th of January 1890, the SS Torridon was showing distress signals off the Wexford coastline, at anchor in a SSW gale.  Three days before the ship had been struck from behind by another vessel in the English Channel and had drifted helplessly for two days...

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