5099 x 3387 px | 43,2 x 28,7 cm | 17 x 11,3 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
14 luglio 2009
Ubicazione:
New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland
Altre informazioni:
The original Dunbrody was a three masted barque built in Quebec in 1845 by Thomas Hamilton Oliver. It carried many Irish emigrants to America during the potato famine. A replica has been built which can be seen in New Ross, Ireland. Dunbrody was commissioned by the Graves family, merchants from New Ross in Wexford and operated primarily as a cargo vessel, carrying timber and guano to Ireland. She was fitted with bunks and between April to September from 1845 to 1851, she carried passengers on the outward leg to Canada and the US. These passengers were people desperate to escape the famine conditions in Ireland at the time and conditions for steerage passengers were tough. An area of 6 foot square was allocated to up to 4 passengers (who might not be related) and their children. Often 50% died on passage (they were known as "coffin ships"). However, the mortality rate on the Dunbrody was exceptionally low, no doubt due to her captains, John Baldwin and his successor John W. Williams, with passengers writing home often praising their dedication. On one passage with 313 passengers, almost twice her normal complement, only 6 died. Each bunk accommodated between 4 to 10 people, including their few belongings In 1869, after 24 years with the Graves family, she was sold. In 1874, while travelling from Cardiff to Quebec, she ran aground in the St. Lawrence. She was bought by a salvage company, repaired and sold again but in 1875 she foundered on the Labrador coast and was lost. The Dunbrody Project oversaw the construction of a full-scale sea-going replica. She was completed in New Ross drydock early in 2001 with the financial assistance of the J. F. Kennedy Trust and since May of that year has been open to visitors at the quayside in New Ross. Visitors can see an interactive exhibition and experience life on board an emigrant ship.
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