Jeanie Johnston under sail
The replica Jeanie Johnston under full sail.
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Jeanie Johnston under sail
The replica Jeanie Johnston under full sail.
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The Jeanie Johnston was built in 1847 by Quebec shipbuilder John Munn. He sailed the ship to Liverpool with a cargo of timber.
The cargo was sold and the ship purchased by a Tralee merchant named Nicholas Donovan. He used the ship to import timber from North America.
On the outward journey the cargo was people - emigrants seeking a new life in Canada and America.
The replica Jeanie Johnston
The Jeanie Johnston as she looked when fully fitted out in Blennerville in 2000.
Courtesy of the Jeanie Johnston ProjectThe replica Jeanie Johnston
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The replica Jeanie Johnston
The Jeanie Johnston as she looked when fully fitted out in Blennerville in 2000.
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The 1840s and 1850s were times of mass emigration from Ireland.
Famine and poverty drove hundreds of thousands abroad.
The ships that carried thousands of people to North America came to be known as "coffin ships".
Rigging on the Jeanie Johnston
A view of the complicated system of rigging on the Jeanie Johnston.
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Rigging on the Jeanie Johnston
A view of the complicated system of rigging on the Jeanie Johnston.
Courtesy of the Jeanie Johnston ProjectConditions on board were so bad that many passengers died before they reached the New World.
The Jeanie Johnston is famous for never having lost a single passenger to disease or the sea.
She made sixteen Atlantic crossings from 1847 until 1858. Each crossing lasted on average forty-seven days.