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...

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...

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...

sculpture of a coffin ship with skeletons interwoven through the rigging symbolising the many emigrants that did not survive the journey across the ocean to...

United States and Canada. Coffin ship owners, captains, masters, and crew men operated triangle and bilateral trade ships out of Nantucket, Massachusetts...

"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 parts obscure...

is engraved with the names of 50 ships which carried those escaping the Great Famine. These ships, sometimes known as coffin ships, were often poorly...

moves into the long-abandoned Marsten House which has a history of murders. Straker has a large coffin shipped into the house and placed in the basement...

be worth afloat. The title of the book is translated directly from the German Das Totenschiff; in English, they are called coffin ships. Traven first wrote...

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...

board for the passengers. This lack of mortality contrasted sharply with coffin ships that carried many other Irish immigrants. In 1855, the ship was sold...

the coffin along with the corpse of the dead. Also, the coffins were found strategically close to water, either rivers or small streams of sea. Ship burials...

Clew Bay. The minimal landscaping also serves to reinforce the stark visual impact of Ireland's National Famine Memorial, the Coffin Ship, a sculpture...

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

The joint tombs of boat-shaped coffins (Chinese: 成都古蜀船棺合葬墓; pinyin: Chéngdū Gǔ Shǔ chuánguān hézàngmù; lit. 'Chengdu ancient Shu boat coffin joint burial...

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 to historical documentation...

Independence and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Coffin was born in Boston and served in the navy on a number of ships during the War of Independence...

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 and...

live within the property's local economic region. The term "absentee ownership" was popularised by economist Thorstein Veblen's 1923 book of the same name...

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...

The movie's title Cargo 200 refers to the zinc coffins in which dead Soviet soldiers were shipped home. The movie was said to be based on a true story. It...

any subdivision load line mark placed above the deepest load line in saltwater. Ballast tank Coffin ship (insurance) Plimsoll shoe Sailing ballast SS...

Coffin and Sons. In 1791, at age 27, Coffin was the captain of a whale oil ship of 160 tons. During July 1791, Coffin became the captain of the ship named...

the Reverend Edward Nangle who established the Achill Mission Colony in the 1830s. In the Famine years, he took the decision to provide food for the children...

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...

Scientist Rises", with Desmond W. Hall, Astounding, November 1932 "The Coffin Ship", with Desmond W. Hall, as Anthony Gilmore, 1933 "Under Arctic Ice"...

Coffin is an English and French surname. The House of Coffin is an ancient English family which originated in Devonshire. The Coffins have held a number...

released in 1911. 1911 in the United States Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1911 films of the United States. 1911 films at the Internet Movie Database...

spanned over 50 years. Sheppard served in the British Merchant Navy during the Korean War. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1958, before...