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	Coffin ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A coffin ship was the name given to the ships that carried Irish emmigrants escaping the effects of the potato famine.
		While coffin ships were the cheapest way to cross the Atlantic, often more than half of the passengers died during the voyage.
		Coffin Ship was unveiled by then President of Ireland Mary Robinson in 1997 to mark the 150th anniversary of the Irish Famine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coffin_ship (291 words)

	Waterline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Waterline refers to an imaginary line marking the level to which ship or boat submerges in the water.
		To an observer on the ship the water appears to rise or fall against the hull of the ship.
		As cargo is brought on board the ship submerges and the symbol dips farther into the water.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plimsoll_line (305 words)

	My Father's Shoes - Our Coffin Story, Pg. 26-50
		Coffin died in 1838 at the age of 82 and was remembered as the oldest General in the British Army.
		Eunice Coffin was born in Nantucket in 1760.
		Kimble Coffin was born at Savage Harbour in 1788 and married Margaret Dingwall in 1812.
	www.islandregister.com /rcoffin/pg26_50.html (13583 words)

	coffinfam
		The family traces its ancestry to Sir Richard Coffin, Knight, who accompanied William the Conqueror from Normandy to England in the year 1066 and to whom the manor of Alwington in the court of Devonshire was assigned.
		Our Coffin line in America was founded by Tristram Coffin (Coffyn as he always signed his name), who was born in Brixton, a small parish and village, near Plymouth, in the southwestern part of Devonshire County England, in the year 1605.
		Alice Virginia Coffin was one of the seven founders of the PEO Sisterhood, a Philanthropic Education Organization, of which Christie and Sheryl are members as well as Scott's wife, Madelyn.
	www.cartar.com /papers/coffinfam/coffinfam.htm (2234 words)

	My Father's Shoes - Our Coffin Story, Pg 1-25
		She was born the first Coffin child in America, and the third child born in the tiny settlement but was destined for the same fate as the other newborns and died three weeks later.
		Mary Coffin was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1645 and married Nathaniel Starbuck at the age of 17.
		Mary Coffin was born in 1665 and married Richard Pinkham of Portsmouth and her second marriage was to James Gardner, son of Richard and Sarah.
	www.islandregister.com /rcoffin/pg1_25.html (12178 words)

	The Ship Eaters
		Coffin drew the gold key from his sash and regarded it nervously.
		Coffin was on the quarterdeck looking back over the taffrail at the ship's long, foaming wake.
		The Ship Eaters is copyright 2001, Jeffrey Blair Latta.
	www.pulpanddagger.com /pulpmag/wiz/eaters4.html (1661 words)

	Titanic Curse
		As the coffin was being unloaded from a truck in the museum courtyard, the truck suddenly went into reverse and trapped a passer-by.
		They saw the coffin lid of the Priestess of Amen-Ra and imagined a coffin whose picture on the front was one of sheer terror and anguish in the face depicted on it.
		The coffin's original occupant was a tormented soul and her evil spirit was loose in the world to bring misery to those who got in her way.
	www.geocities.com /titanicandco/curse.html (1729 words)

	Irish Emigrant Ship [The Jeanie Johnston - not a coffin ship - Interesting American History] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A square-sterned, three-masted barque, constructed of Quebec oak and pine, the 408 tonne ship was built in Quebec, Canada by noted Scottish-born shipbuilder, John Munn in 1847.
		The dire circumstances of the starving Irish soon altered his plans and the ship made its maiden voyage to Quebec on April 24, 1848, with 193 emigrants on board who were searching for a new life as the effects of the Famine ravaged the land.
		In 1856, she was sold as a cargo ship to William Johnson of North Shields in England and, two years later when en route from Quebec to Hull with timber, she ran into trouble in mid-Atlantic.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/937612/posts (2108 words)

	Emerald Reflections Online
		Though the conditions on the "coffin ships" would be considered intolerable today, nearly 1,800,000 Irish emigrants boarded American, British, and Australian vessels to escape the famine.
		The famine ships or "coffin ships" were the unstable vessels that carried emigrants out of Ireland in the years following the famine.
		Consequently, ships flying the stars and stripes, as well as other emigrant ships, did not have living conditions which were quite as poor.
	www.angelfire.com /wi/shamrockclubwisc/Reflections/page112.html (3825 words)

	Ex Astris Scientia - Civilian Federation Ship Classes
		The ship type, on the other hand, along with the specifications that were seen on screen, is probably as authentic as the whole simulation is supposed to be.
		Considering that the ship is urgently needed and stealing still another ship as a replacement would be an unnecessary risk, the T'Pau is apparently used without being fully operational, or the Romulans have cared for sufficient spare parts to repair the three ships under all circumstances.
		This ship may have been supposed to be smaller than Chakotay's vessel, maybe 40m, but for the sake of plausibility, I assume it's just an oversized cockpit and not a smaller ship.
	www.ex-astris-scientia.org /schematics/other_ships.htm (3047 words)

	Ancestry.co.uk - Examining the Transatlantic Voyage, Part 1
		Earlier ships were primarily cargo vessels of slaves, cotton, tobacco, wheat, beef, and pork for the westward crossing, and of iron, pots and pans, nails, salt, bricks, glass, chemicals, and textiles for the eastward crossing.
		As a result, coffin ships to Canada sometimes carried two or three times the number of people as those ships that went directly to the United States.
		Ship hands would load cargo, supplies, and passengers, but even when everything was on board, the voyage did not necessarily begin.
	www.ancestry.co.uk /learn/library/article.aspx?article=3365 (1367 words)

	Irish Cultural Society of San Antonio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They went in all kinds of vessels, most of them hastily converted cargo ships referred to as "coffin ships." Some, in virtual panic crowded into these ill-equipped, unsanitary vessels and died of disease and hunger before ever reaching the new world.
		Mortality rates of 20-40% aboard the coffin ships were common with 17,465 documented shipboard deaths in 1847 alone.
		On the return voyage the ship usually carried timber from North America to Tralee; however, during the winter of 1848 the ship brought badly needed food supplies from New York to Tralee in an attempt to ease the famine conditions.
	home.swbell.net /lpkelley/ICS/essaysandmisc/jeaniejohnston.html (755 words)

	Coffin Ships
		When storms battered the ship, the emigrants were kept, in fact locked, below decks for days at a time, rolling about and buffeted by their luggage.
		Slave ships were carrying their cargo to America at the same time.
		In 1999 the Irish and US postal services issued stamps, identical in art work, commemorating the coffin ships: A most commendable thought ruined by the painting, a romantic and adventurous view of the exterior of a ship, the horrors hidden within.
	members.core.com /~hward/ships.html (535 words)

	Maritime Union of Australia: Environment: Ships of Shame
		Some common problems with substandard shipping are: corroded ladders, ship's cranes, winches, anchor cables, damaged or corroded ballasts, cracked holds, defective fire fighting and life saving equipment, defective radio equipment and malfunctioning machinery.
		FOC ships fly the flags of other nations because they are cheap - low registration costs, low (or no) taxes, poor standards and cheap crews.
		FOC vessels are responsible for the majority of major shipping collisions and for a disproportionate volume of maritime pollution.
	www.mua.org.au /environment/sos.html (478 words)

	Irish-American History
		The phrase âcoffin shipâ came to take on a much more sinister meaning towards the end of the 1840s.
		The Emigrants were totally at the mercy of the Masters of the ship.
		Shipâs Masters also were in a position to show smaller numbers of passengers on their manifests than were actually carried which has proved to be another reason for hopelessly inadequate information on the numbers who fled the country.
	www.suite101.com /lesson.cfm/18819/2329/3?l=6 (787 words)

	Maritime Union of Australia: Environment: Coffin Ship:Toxic Graveyards Exposed
		Under attack are ships contaminated with toxic and hazardous materials headed for breaking up on the coast of India and other Asian countries.
		The ship is contaminated with high levels of toxic and hazardous materials.
		The unions are insisting that ships for scrap exported to Asia should be free of hazardous substances including asbestos, lead and other heavy metal compounds, oily wastes and polychlorinated biphenyl.
	www.mua.org.au /environment/coffin_ship.html (914 words)

	Canada --- The Wild Geese Today
		Large numbers of the emigrants on almost every ship departing Ireland for Canada had typhus when they boarded, and as the ships continued on, with the passengers packed together (often the ships were illegally over packed) in filthy conditions, with no facilities for washing, the disease spread like wildfire.
		British law called for the ships to provide seven pounds of food a week for each passenger, often they got less, and even that was sometimes inedible.
		Many ships bought used casks for the passengers' drinking water as they were less expensive, but these often leaked or stored wine, making the water undrinkable.
	www.thewildgeese.com /pages/grossile.html (715 words)

	Cheltenham: Lucretia Mott
		Born January 3, 1793, on the island of Nantucket, Lucretia Coffin was the second of six children of Anna and Thomas Coffin, a Quaker sea captain.
		After Captain Coffin's ship was captured by the Spanish in Chile, he entered the mercantile business and the family moved to Boston.
		At the age of 13, Lucretia was sent to the Nine Partners Boarding School near Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Within two years, she became a teacher at the school, and it was during this time that she met James Mott, grandson of the school superintendent and a teacher himself.
	www.cheltenhamtownship.org /lamott/lamott2.htm (1015 words)

	Clare Museum: Riches of Clare: Wreck of a Coffin Ship
		She had not sailed far when a ferocious storm suddenly struck and the ship was blown back towards the Clare coast.
		At this stage the captain ordered a mast to be cut to act as a bridge from the wrecked vessel to the rocks and about one hundred reached safety using this route.
		The captain and mate remained on the ship until the end and were flung into the sea with a few others.
	www.clarelibrary.ie /eolas/claremuseum/news_events/wreck_coffin_ship.htm (970 words)

	Jeanie Johnston Chronicle, 8.7.00 latest news on postponed trans-Atlantic voyage, from Tralee, Kerry, Ireland
		This will afford the general public and project supporters throughout Ireland the opportunity to visit the ship before she sets sail to Canada and the US in the Spring of 2001.
		The sculptor's vision for this work was that the ship was empty of people but full up with souls.
		This large bronze sculpture depicts the newly arrived Irish, descending the gangplank of a famine ship in America and is aptly entitled "Emigrants - the New Dawn".
	www.focuskerry.com /jeanie/sculptures.html (882 words)

	The Great Hunger and the Arts
		The ship will be sited on the Plaza, by the river, at the UN Headquarters in New York.
		The bronze sculpture, measuring some 7 metres in length and 8 metres in height, will be a variation on the National Famine Memorial at Murrisk, Co. Mayo, on the West Coast of Ireland.
		The sculptor of the 'Coffin Ship' by John Behan was unveiled by Mary Robinson, then President of Ireland in 1997 to mark the 150 year anniversary of The Great Famine.
	www.englisch.schule.de /away/behan.htm (204 words)

	Whyte's Diary
		The two ships were again in sight, one was the Tamerlane of Aberystwyth, the other the Virginius of Liverpool; both fine vessels with passengers.
		This morning when I came on deck, a sailor was busily employed constructing a coffin for the remains of the head committee's wife and it was afflicting to bear the husband's groans and sobs accompanying each sound of the saw and hammer, while, with his motherless infant in his arms, he looked on.
		She sailed for London on 25 August 1825 with a cargo (it is said of 10,000 tons) of lumber, her four masts crowded with sails, and followed down the river by a fleet of steamers and pleasure yachts.
	www.aepizeta.org /~codine/famine/diary1.html (21406 words)

	[No title]
		He said that he was willing to work for his support but the captain swore determinedly that he should not taste one pound of the ship's provision.
		They were chiefly from the County Meath, and sent out at the expense of their landlord without any knowledge of the country to which they were going, or means of livelihood except the labour of the father of each family.
		We had two ships in company with us all the day; they were too distant to distinguish their names.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~hyper/SADLIER/IRISH/RWhyte.htm (2912 words)

	[No title]
		The city upon the side of Cape Diamond, with its tincovered dome and spires sparkling in the morning sun and surrounded by its walls and batteries bristling with cannon, was crowned by the impregnable citadel, while a line of villages spread along the northern shore reaching to Beauport and Montmorenci.
		It is bound to provide or to require that there be provided a medical attendant; whereas in these ships there are none, though sickness of adults and deaths of children on the passage are matters of the very commonest occurrence.
		Laws for the regulation of passenger ships were in existence but, whether on account of difficulty arising from the vast augmentation of number or some other cause, they (if at all put in force) proved quite ineffectual.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/SADLIER2/Irish/RWhyte5.html (5755 words)

	Hunger for Love, Sorcha MacMurrough, Domhan Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Finding berths and jobs on a coffin ship bound for Canada, Emer and her clan witness untold suffering.
		Historical accuracy was preserved, and the description of one of the infamous 'coffin ships' was detailed and emotional.
		Now remember, the ship will be cold and damp with no proper beds if we have to go, so we will need all the blankets.
	www.domhanbooks.com /hunger.htm (4711 words)

	"Away" - Emigration on coffin-ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The situation on the "coffin ship" is described from the view of the six year old Liam, who didn't really recognize all the happenings on it, because everybody was tortured by hunger, thirst and illness.
		A third of the people on the "coffin ship" starved and Liam himself forgot his own sickness by watching other people dying.
		This nearly unbearable journey lasted ten weeks, after which all passengers had to spend six weeks in quarantine.
	www.schule.de /englisch/away/coffinship.htm (150 words)

	Civil War Sub Discovered--Family Tree Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Hunley became the first submarine to sink a ship in battle, which wouldn't happen again until World War I. But it would be one of the last Confederate ships to return.
		They nicknamed their submersible "the porpoise," which is what a Housatonic sailor mistook it for right before the attack.
		The Hunley was one of a few submersible ships during the Civil War.
	www.familytreemagazine.com /articles/oct00/sub1.html (947 words)

	Peconic Land Trust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Emma was born in Honolulu, Island of Oahu, in 1856 on a whaling voyage in the ship Zenas Coffin of Nantucket.
		She and her parents returned home in 1857 only to sail again from 1862 to 1865 on the ship Pacific of New Bedford.
		Soon after returning, they left on the ship Trident of New Bedford and were at sea between 1865 and 1869.
	www.peconiclandtrust.org /newsnew6.htm (553 words)

	Delta promotion is no wake - Jul. 15, 1999
		It also would make life more difficult for area funeral directors, who say they ship roughly 15 percent of their deceased out of state by plane each year.
		Because of the greater availability of flights through Orlando, the nation's top tourist destination, many area funeral directors began shipping their coffins there instead.
		Area funeral directors said the airline charges roughly $280 to ship a coffin weighing 500 pounds or less anywhere in the country.
	money.cnn.com /1999/07/15/companies/delta (586 words)

	William B. Coffin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		William B. Coffin, descendent of Tristram Coffin, lived on Nantucket along with many relatives of the same name.
		He worked as a ship chandler and maintained an active interest in several whaling voyages.
		The collection consists of one ledger noting debits and credits for a number of accounts.
	www.library.hbs.edu /hc/sfa/williamcoffin.htm (70 words)

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