Here are the fourth and fifth pages [I split one long page] in the sequence of articles about the sinking of the passage boat Longford on the Royal Canal in 1845. They discuss some of the evidence of corporate incompetence and farcical laxity that may have persuaded the inquest jury to award a deodand against the vessel (and thus against the Royal Canal Company).
Amongst other gems, the footnotes explain what a crapper is.
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Tagged 1845, boats, bridge, canal, Clonsilla, crapper, deep sinking, Dublin, Ireland, lock, Longford, Operations, passage boat, Porterstown, Royal Canal, Samuel Draper, vessels, waterways
Here is the third page in the sequence about the sinking of the passage boat Longford on the Royal Canal in 1845. This page, The deodand, covers the inquest and the trial.
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Tagged 1845, boats, bridge, canal, Clonsilla, Ireland, Longford, Operations, passage boat, Porterstown, Royal Canal, vessels, waterways
Here is the second page of the saga. This one gives background information about the passage boat service, the boats and the crew of the Longford. The shock-horror stuff will be in later pages.
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Tagged 1845, boats, bridge, canal, Clonsilla, deep sinking, Dublin, Ireland, iron, Longford, Operations, passage boat, Porterstown, Royal Canal
Here is the first of several articles about the sinking of the Royal Canal passage-boat Longford on 25 November 1845.
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Tagged 1845, Clonsilla, Ireland, Longford, passage boat, Porterstown, Royal Canal
It appears that these new-fangled railways are here to stay, displacing the passage-boat and the mail-coach, the Scotch cart and the lumber boat.
Accordingly, I have rearranged my small number of railway-related pages under a top-level heading of their own.
I have added a new railway page, about the Lundy Island Railway and Colonization Company, from the Dublin Evening Mail of 2 May 1845. Gerald M King has produced stamps for Lundy, including Railway Parcel Stamps, but it is not clear whether they depict any of the engines or rolling stock described in the Mail and there are few other sources of information about the railway.
I have tried to explain as many of the references as I could, but some are still obscure to me and I would welcome comments from those expert in Irish religious conflicts of the 1840s (as well as those knowledgeable about railways and other technology of the period).
Irish waterways history