by andrew | May 20, 2022 | Lifeboats
As part of the RNLI Mayday Mile fundraiser, author David Carroll returns this week with another fascinating insight into the history of the Dunmore East RNLI. You can donate to the Dunmore East Mayday mile page here. David is the author of numerous guest blogs on this...
by andrew | May 13, 2022 | Lifeboats
As part of the RNLI Mayday Mile, this year author David Carroll has agreed to join our team to help promote and fundraise for our local station at Dunmore East. Our 22km walk takes place on Sunday 22nd and over May we will have a number of lifeboat-related blogs. You...
by andrew | May 8, 2022 | Shipwrecks
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the loss of a very important vessel in Irish maritime heritage and history, the Muirchú and page regular David Carrol has agreed to share the story of the ship and her final voyage with us. Having been laid-up since late 1946, the...
by andrew | Feb 13, 2022 | Shipwrecks
On This Day in 1884 the fully rigged sailing ship Stowell Brown came to grief on the sand bar above Creaden Head, one of several ships caught out in a terrific February storm almost 140 years ago. A regular and popular guest contributor to our page, David Carroll has...
by andrew | Dec 2, 2021 | Rescues at sea, Waterford seafarers
David Carroll, author of Dauntless Courage, and a regular and ever-popular guest blogger with the page, brings us the story of Waterford sea Captain Tom Donohue who died on this day in 1949. When Captain Tom Donohue, a fifty-nine-year-old native of Dungarvan, and the...
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