queenstown

39 photos and 7 illustrations tagged queenstown, from 5 members of Flickr Commons.

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2019

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The stranded Celtic off Cobh from Liberas uploaded November 2025
U.S.S. Constellation after a "very anxious and boisterous passage" from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded August 2023
Top Brass from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded December 2021
Rostillon Castle, Aghada, Co. Cork from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded November 2019
British Library digitised image from page 508 of "An Illustrated History of the New World: containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the Western Continent. Comprising the earliest discoveries ... an account of the A from British Library uploaded March 2018
British Library digitised image from page 319 of "Our own country. Descriptive, historical, pictorial" from British Library uploaded September 2017
Harbour, Queenstown, Co. Cork from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded March 2017
Emigrants leaving. Scotts Quay, Queenstown from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded December 2016
The Rileys - Survivors of the sinking of the Lusitania, Cobh (formerly Queenstown), Co. Cork from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded October 2016
British Library digitised image from page 67 of "Illustrated Handbook to Cork, the Lakes of Killarney, and the South of Ireland ... From the Irish Tourists' Handbook [or rather 'The Tourists' Illustrated Handbook for Ireland']" from British Library uploaded September 2016
Admiralty House from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded June 2016
West Beach, Queenstown, Co. Cork from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded June 2016
Arrival of Governor at Queenstown Station (1894) from Tasmanian Archives and State Library (Commons) uploaded June 2016
West Lyell open-cut mine, pure copper being loaded onto rail trucks, 1953 from Tasmanian Archives and State Library (Commons) uploaded May 2016
Abt railway section, Mt Lyell. Beattie photograph from Tasmanian Archives and State Library (Commons) uploaded May 2016

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U.S.S. Constellation after a "very anxious and boisterous passage"

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

42 older comments, and then…
Mike Grimes said:
She was the last sail only warship designed and built by the U.S. navy and is still afloat as a museum ship in Baltimore, Maryland. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constellation_(1854) Interesting part of the Wikipedia article is: After returning to New York, she was modified to carry a large cargo of food and other supplies to Ireland for the relief effort for the 1879 Irish famine. To accommodate as much food as possible, some of the ship's guns were removed, along with some of her ballast. She was able to carry more than 2,500 barrels of flour and potatoes. She left the United States in March 1880 and arrived in Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland on 20 April, where she sent the food ashore, took on ballast, and returned to the United States, arriving in June.
beachcomber australia said:
28 April 1880 was a Wednesday ...
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Mike Grimes beachcomber australia SNAP
Mike Grimes said:
Some nice engravings here which lead me to believe the moody looking chap front and center is Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, also the Duke of Edinburgh. Would Captain Potter be the happy chappy to the left with the sword? www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nmusn/explor...
beachcomber australia said:
Read All About It! Via Trove ... " ... The American frigate Constellation, with supplies for the suffering Irish, arrived at Queenstown on the 20th ult. Her cargo was distributed at different stations on the south and west coast of Ireland by British gunboats. The Duke of Edinburgh visited the vessel on the 25th. Addresses were presented to the captain and officers by the Cork branch of the Land League, the people of Queenstown, and by the Nationalists. Captain Potter refused to receive the address of the people of Queenstown until the political passages were expunged. His wishes were complied with. He received the address of the Nationalists, with the name of Doran at the head of the list of signers, on the assurance that it contained nothing of a political nature, but it concluded with the words, "God save Ireland." Captain Potter, on reading it, was taken by surprise, and curtly replied, "Thank you," which disappointed the deputation. After some opposition, in consequence of the famine-stricken condition of Ireland, the citizens of Queenstown decided to give a banquet to the officers of the frigate. The Cork Yacht Club gave a luncheon to the Duke of Edinburgh on the 26th, at which Captain Potter was present. The officers of the frigate were also honoured on their visit to Dublin; an arch of flags, in which the stars and stripes predominated, was thrown across the street in front of the Mansion-House. Captain Potter was presented with the freedom of the city. ..." From - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/160133841?searchTerm=c...

The Rileys - Survivors of the sinking of the Lusitania, Cobh (formerly Queenstown), Co. Cork

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

27 older comments, and then…
DannyM8 said:
The following is a list of all survivors under 10 years of age. ANTILA, Master Carl4 MARICHAL, Miss Phyllis Renée4 RICHARDS, Master Cecil Harry4 RILEY, Miss Ethel4 RILEY, Miss Sutcliffe4 LEWIS, Miss Edith5 MARICHAL, Miss Yvonne “Eve”5 PEARL, Master Stuart Duncan Day5 SMITH, Miss Helen6 FRANKUM, Master Francis7 KAY, Master Robert Belsher7 MAINMAN, Master Edwin Richard7 MAINMAN, Miss Elizabeth7 RICHARDS, Master Thomas Percy7 BRAMMER, Miss Edith8 FISH, Miss Marion Enid8 SCOTT, Master Arthur, Jr.8 WILLIAMS, Miss Edith9 www.rmslusitania.info/people/lusitania-survivors/
B-59 said:
I think the children could be 4 years old, and it's the Riley family: www.geni.com/people/Edward-Riley/6000000021221438693
B-59 said:
See www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/lest-we-forget-the-lusitani...: Riley, Mr. Edward. Riley, Mrs. Annie. Riley, Miss Ethel. 4. Riley, Master Sutcliffe. 4. (www.geni.com/people/Emily-Riley/6000000021221483732 gives the name of the daughter as Emily)
B-59 said:
The same woman and the two children are visible in sites.google.com/site/thegreatlusitania/survivors
DannyM8 said:
I think this is the building? www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8504289,-8.2944663,3a,75y,282.1...

Queenstown, where soldiers found a home, and sailors their rest

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

46 older comments, and then…
heady school said:
When did the Cathedral get it's spire?
DannyM8 said:
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyelightfilms] New side chapel & sacristy (Blessed Thaddeus Chapel and sacristy built by John Sisk); completion of tower & spire (spire built by J. Maguire, Cork); carving to front by Harrison & Sons; further additions. Consecrated Aug 1919.
Swordscookie said:
It's a cracker of a shot with tremendous detail in it. Obviously taken from a very stable base given the clarity. The Pissoir is indeed different but not too different really though it looks as though it can only accomodate two and with a decent degree of seperation! I can't see any dogs yet but I am sure that somebody will;-)
Swordscookie said:
National Library of Ireland on The Commons Carol, have you any idea what has been crossed out between Queenstown and WL? Is it a date and do you know it??????????
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Swordscookie Off to have a look at the super-duper-sized (technical term) image! Please hold, your call is important to us...