A coffin ship (Irish: long cónra) is a popular idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders...

Coffin ship may refer to: The Coffin Ship, a 1911 silent film Coffin ship, an idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish and Scottish migrants...

A coffin ship is any ship that has been overinsured and is therefore worth more to its owners sunk than afloat. These were hazardous places to work in...

The Coffin Ship is a 1911 American silent film, a nautical melodrama produced by the Thanhouser Company of New Rochelle, New York. Featuring William Garwood...

the family owned three whaling ships (whalers) and a trade vessel. In 1763, six Coffin men were captains of Nantucket ships which sailed as far as South...

River used to quarantine ships near Quebec City. Overcrowded, poorly maintained, and badly provisioned vessels known as coffin ships sailed from small, unregulated...

"Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)". While there is no evidence that the song is specifically about Coffin or the ship Essex (and the lyrics are in...

immigrant (a ghost, as his words reveal) answers that his voyage was on "a coffin ship," and thus, having died on the journey, he has no answers. According...

in 1847, during the Great Famine, aboard crowded and disease-ridden "coffin ships". In Canada, more than 20,000 people died from 1847 to 1848, with many...

Chronology of the Great Famine British Relief Association Souperism Coffin ship Irish diaspora Young Ireland rebellion Encumbered Estates' Court Legacy...

Chronology of the Great Famine British Relief Association Souperism Coffin ship Irish diaspora Young Ireland rebellion Encumbered Estates' Court Legacy...

line mark placed above the deepest load line in saltwater. Ballast tank Coffin ship (insurance) Plimsoll shoe Sailing ballast SS London – sank in 1866 and...

long-abandoned Marsten House which has a history of murders. Straker has a large coffin shipped into the house and placed in the basement. Straker kidnaps one of Mark's...

lack of mortality contrasted sharply with coffin ships that carried many other Irish immigrants. In 1855, the ship was sold to William Johnson of North Shields...

Pagan metal band Primordial also have a song about the Famine named "The Coffin Ships" on their 2005 album The Gathering Wilderness. Another related song is...

ships' sails. Each sail is engraved with the names of 50 ships which carried those escaping the Great Famine. These ships, sometimes known as coffin ships...

ground, the coffins of the Bo people were found hanging on cliffs. These coffins were also boat-shaped. Grave goods found in the coffins included blue...

Chronology of the Great Famine British Relief Association Souperism Coffin ship Irish diaspora Young Ireland rebellion Encumbered Estates' Court Legacy...

directly from the German Das Totenschiff; in English, they are called coffin ships. Traven first wrote Das Totenschiff in English in 1923 or 1924. Editor...

forms of quarantine, who had contracted the disease aboard the crowded coffin ships in fleeing the Great Irish Famine. Officials neither knew how to provide...

reinforce the stark visual impact of Ireland's National Famine Memorial, the Coffin Ship, a sculpture which stands prominently in the park. The unveiling of the...

Chronology of the Great Famine British Relief Association Souperism Coffin ship Irish diaspora Young Ireland rebellion Encumbered Estates' Court Legacy...

Chronology of the Great Famine British Relief Association Souperism Coffin ship Irish diaspora Young Ireland rebellion Encumbered Estates' Court Legacy...

stoker's helper in extremely difficult conditions on board a "death ship" (or coffin ship), which sails on suspicious voyages around the European and African...

SS Howard E. Coffin was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Howard E. Coffin, one of the founders of the...

Qin dynasty (221–206BC). Hanging coffins Ship burial in Asia Huang Zhiling (15 March 2017). "Ancient boat-shaped coffins found in Sichuan". China Daily...

in their U-boat campaign attempted to take advantage of this by sinking ships importing food into Britain, but they were eventually defeated. During the...

Chronology of the Great Famine British Relief Association Souperism Coffin ship Irish diaspora Young Ireland rebellion Encumbered Estates' Court Legacy...

passengers who were simply viewed as cargo in the eyes of the ship workers. Notable coffin ships include the Jeanie Johnston and the Dunbrody. There are statues...

stole Trevelyan's corn / so the young might see the morn / now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay." Because of Trevelyan's policies, the Irish consider...