irishsea

One ship that seemed to have had a lot of troubles. tidesandtales.ie/the-blighted-earl-of-beaconsfield/.

Mike Grimes She did not have any luck whatsoever!

Here is the official goss - wrecksite.eu/docBrowser.aspx?5831?7?1 via - wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?171992 ... On the following morning, the weather having moderated still more, some tugs belonging to the Waterford Steamship Company went out, and having taken hold of the vessel, brought her into the river, but before they could get her into the harbour the tide had turned, and they were obliged to cast anchor and hold on until the following tide, when they took her up the harbour, and laid her on the mud. There the cargo was retrimmed, and the vessel pumped out, and she has since been towed round to Greenock, where she now is, her cargo having been discharged preparatory to undergoing repairs ..." It's not super clear what date in February 1884 this was. [I went on a wild goose chase after another 'Earl of Beaconsfield' which was shipwrecked near Hull in 1887]

Named after Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli via The City College of New York

The Board of Trade Inquiry "into the abandonment of the sailing ship Earl of Beaconsfield off the coast of Ireland on 13th February" concluded (in summary) that no-one was to blame.

- the ship was new and had been inspected by Lloyds - it had been "admirably stowed" - the master made every effort to get the ship into port - the master was right to abandon the ship when he did - the owners had insured the ship and freight "very fully", but she was not over insured - the primary cause was the violence of the gale - but also: some coal had shifted in the storm, causing a list, which could (and ought to) have been prevented by the use of shifting boards (especially as the planned voyage included rounding of Cape Horn)

As Mr Rothery, Wrecks Commissioner, didn't (but could have) put it, "It was just one of those things". There were 32 crew and one stowaway. (North British Daily Mail - Saturday 29 March 1884)

There seems to have been extensive land reclamation since 1955. Google Satellite 3D view - www.google.com/maps/@54.8448983,-5.7937917,89a,35y,323.44...

[Aside] We visited the pale house near the Chaine Memorial Tower (see note right hand side) in 1899 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaine_Memorial

beachcomber australia And excavation, it’s difficult to reconcile that view with any of the various vintage PRONI maps. The trip could have been worth his while as the fuel would have been tax free for a ‘foreign flight’

Two railways ran side by side to Larne harbour. The Ballymena and Larne railway, a narrow gauge railway and the Belfast and Northern Counties railway, a standard gauge railway. 1950 saw wholesale closures of railways following the formation of the Ulster Transport Authority in 1948. The Ballymena and Larne railway was one of many that were closed than year. The road on the right of the railway lines is still known as the Narrow Gauge Road.

Passenger steamer is the Princess Margaret, older sister of the well known Princess Maud.

Is the tram we see in the distance a Dublin tram or a Hill of Howth Tramway tram?

That's a Dublin United Tramways Company tram. The Howth terminus was at the base of the East pier.

O Mac Thank you. Mary

Electric trams but no electric street lamps yet. And the tide is out.

Googlesphere August 2016. And the tide is out - goo.gl/maps/jadh4yGABeN7d3RQ7