Category: Floats
Introduction to Ireland Made the Irish transport archive
Floats, Wheels, Wings May 21, 2023
We are ‘Ireland Made’ the Irish transport archive ☘️
Our mission is to celebrate and preserve[…]
Ireland’s only cable guided ferry | Season 3 – Episode 31
Floats, Wheels May 21, 2023
Humans have used ferries to cross rivers for thousands of years.
We understand that two[…]
Gypsy Moth III – Tyrrell built 1960 trans-Atlantic winner | Season 3 – Episode 30
Floats May 14, 2023
Beginning in the 1770s, generations of Tyrrells have built ships in Arklow, County Wicklow. In 1864[…]
1900s Warrenpoint built Cretefleet – where are they now? | Season 3 – Episode 17
Floats March 28, 2023
During World War I, the German U-boat fleet had sunk 5000 Allied Merchant vessels, creating a[…]
Strangford Ferry since 1180 – first female captain | Season 3 – Episode 13
Floats March 15, 2023
Lorraine McLean from Downpatrick, Co Down has made maritime history after becoming the first female skipper[…]
Richard Crosbie the first Irishman to fly in a balloon 1785 | Season 2 – Episode 97
Floats, Wings January 18, 2023
Richard Crosbie, was born in 1756 at Crosbie Park, near Baltinglass, County Wicklow . He showed[…]