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Current state[edit]
This document can be thought of as a “to do list” for WP:IMAR.
In general, Wikipedia's collection of articles relating to Ireland are not, in terms of quality and quantity, as good as the articles for other Anglophobe countries. Within that Irish Maritime articles are not as good as other Irish articles. This means that there is work to be done.
For the over-all quality of articles on Wikipedia, look at WP:GA and read:
 | Currently, out of the 4,721,337 articles on Wikipedia, 21,537 are categorized as good articles (about 1 in 220), most of which are listed below. An additional 4,466 are listed as featured articles (about 1 in 1,060) and 2,784 as featured lists (about 1 in 1,700). Because articles are only included on one list, a good article that has been promoted to featured status is removed from the good articles list. Adding good and featured articles and lists together gives a total of 28,787 articles (about 1 in 165). |
For Irish statistics, go to WT:IE and find: 44,115 articles, 109 are GA – about 1 in 400. Adding good (109) and featured articles(31) and featured lists(3) together gives a total of 143 articles (about 1 in 267). For completeness, consider another country: USA. they have 398,272 articles. 1980 are GA, about 1 in 200 adding in the featured: ga 1980 + fa 659 + fl 284 : 2923 about 1 in 136.
- All ...... GA: 1 in 220, GA+FA: 1 in 165 ... the average
- Ireland... GA: 1 in 400, GA+FA: 1 in 267 ... only half the average
- USA ...... GA: 1 in 200, GA+FA: 1 in 136 ... better than the average
We are indebted to many non-Irish editors for their work on Irish articles. Many of these articles would benefit from a review by Irish editors. Many, indeed most, Irish Mariners served under foreign flags. In general, editors from those nations have authored biographical articles. Of the Irish who left and became notable abroad. Those in English speaking countries usually have Wikipedia articles. Those who went to France have articles which are translations from the French Wikipedia. There are similar German and Italian articles. This tends not to be the case for Spanish articles. There are Irish who are now famous in South America but no article, or a rather poor article in Wikipedia. Then there is the question of emphasis. Some aspects of a biography, or any article, can be more important to a non-Irish editor than to an Irish editor.
Examples of the current state[edit]
(although this changes as work is done. Should we call this "examples of a previous state"? The most important and significant thing in Dublin port is the Bull Wall. It is quite a story. The man behind it had quite a career as an employee of the Ballast Office – now the Dublin Port and Docks Board. He also had involvement in building the Military Road (R115) through the Wicklow Mountains to root out Fiach McHugh O'Byrne. Earlier in his life there was a minor incident, he was captain of HMS Bounty, but there were no marines aboard and the crew mutinied. But the Wikipedia article only has two lines, less than 1% on his Marine engineering accomplishments. Our fellow editors in the UK are far more interested in the mutiny.
Consider Irish people important to foreign navies:
- Argentina: William Brown (admiral) "father of the Argentine Navy
- Chile: Bernardo O'Higgins Supreme Director of Chile
- Juan Mackenna creator of the Corps of Military Engineers of the Chilean Army.
- Jorge O'Brien - Captain of the Chilean Navy during the Chilean War of Independence
- Peter (Pedro) Campbel (1780-1832) - founder of the Uruguayan Navy
- Bartholomew Hayden : Brazil Navy - [1]
- Thomas Wright (1799-1868) - founder of the Ecuadorian naval school
- USA: John Barry (naval officer) "The Father of the American Navy"
- Imperial Russian Navy: John Delapp from Kerry (who saved the life of Peter the Great) [2]
And let us not forget those in the RN – almost all have articles, but they were written by Wikipedia editors in the UK.
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in Dún Laoghaire, there is this monument to Capt Boyd. There is no Wikipedia article of him,
The List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll has the entry for Pomona (ship), a shipwreck: 400 died on 30 April 1859. She was carrying mainly Irish emigrants to New York but sank off Wexford. Other incidents of that magnitude on that list have full articles
Articles on Media: There is an article for The Irish Skipper but none for its competitors No article for the Marine Times (Ireland) nor Afloat nor Inshore Ireland.
There is an article for Seascapes broadcast on RTE radio, but not for its competitor Island Nation broadcast on the community radio stations.
There are no articles for many government departments dealing with the sea; nor for other organisations:
- Customs & Excise, Irish Revenue no page other than Revenue Commissioners
- The Department of Transport - Commercial Harbours = no article
- The Department of the Environment - Dredging - no article
- The Marine Survey Office - none
- Mercantile Marine Office (MMO) - none
- Irish Maritime Development Office - none
- Irish Water Safety Association
- Irish Exporters Association
- Cruising Association of Ireland
There are lots of fairly straight-forward articles needed: such as a History of the Irish Naval Service
then there are harbour companies - other than Dublin & Cork
- Dublin Port Company
- Port of Cork
- Drogheda Port Company
- Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company
- Galway Harbour Company
- New Ross Port Company
- Shannon Foynes Port Company
- Port of Waterford Company
- Wicklow Port Company
Shipbuilding: there is an article on Harland and Wolfe in Belfast. There is nothing on Verlome in Cork or Vickers in Dublin, nor the many other yards.
World War One: The US Navy stationed in Cobh, Cork played a significant role in preventing U-boats wrecking the havoc that was seen in the Atlantic in WW2
All those American sailors had a social effect. John Borgonovo published Exercising a Close Vigilance Over Their Daughters: Cork Women, American Sailors, and the Catholic Vigilantes of 1917-1918.
Shipping Companies
Ships
Life Saving
Articles[edit]
WP:imar pages
by 'ireland' we mean the island RoI plus NI
we need to be clear why an article lies in our ambit the tricky areas are ships and people
ships: irish owned, operated, built, sunk in our waters, irish captain, served a regular route to/from Ireland
people: state the connection, 'wild geese' are included (people of irish descent)
Unclassified[edit]
category:Shipwrecks in the Irish Sea
Dublin Trader see Michael Ford (engraver)
Coffin ship ok
Cinque Ports in Ireland tiny drop?
Fastnet Race ok
1979 Fastnet race tagged
Green Ensign small ok
5th meridian west not ours - forget
Convergence zone - forget
Papa Group geology
Pembrokeshire Dangler - forget
Flora and Fauna[edit]
Liocarcinus holsatus crab
Liocarcinus holsatus crab
Mid-Atlantic Ridge Ecosystem Project ok needs cleanup
Economic[edit]
Fishing[edit]
Wind Farms[edit]
category:Offshore wind farms in the Irish Sea
Oriel Wind Farm small ok
Electricity Interconnector[edit]
East–West Interconnector (redirect from Irish Sea Interconnector)
ISLES project (redirect from Irish-Scottish Links on Energy Study)
Imera (company) Imera was the promoter of the East–West Interconnector project across Irish Sea between Ireland and Wales
Neculear[edit]
Transport[edit]
Irish Sea fixed crossing not claimed
E8 European long distance path to claim? - forget
Buildings: museums, LOPs, Martello[edit]
Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
Organisations[edit]
Shipping[edit]
category:Ferries of Northern Ireland
category:Ferries of the Republic of Ireland
category:Packet (sea transport)
category:Ferry companies of the Republic of Ireland
Shipping Companies[edit]
Atlantic Steam Navigation Company ok
Drogheda Steam Packet Company ok
Dublin Shipping tiny
Dundalk and Newry Steam Packet Company tiny
Dundalk Steam Packet Company tiny (merge with above)?
Belfast Car Ferries start
Belfast Steamship Company stub, needs work
British and Irish Steam Packet Company ok
City of Dublin Steam Packet Company ok
Coast Lines ok
Dublin & Lancashire Steamship Company
Eucon container line owned by Irish Continental Group
Galway Bay Steamboat Company stub
Irish Shipping needs cites & I have book
Isle of Man Steam Packet Company ok
Norfolkline either
Norse Irish Ferries claimed
Seatruck Ferries and check
Waterford Steamship Company tiny ok
govt - both RoI and NI[edit]
Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources ok
Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources ok
Minister of State (with special responsibility for the Marine)
Minister of State for Fisheries and Forestry - dup of above
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
Customs & Excise, Irish Revenue no page other than Revenue Commissioners
The Department of Transport - Commercial Harbours = no article
The Department of the Environment - Dredging - no article
The Marine Survey Office - none
Mercantile Marine Office (MMO) - none
Irish Maritime Development Office - none
state quangos[edit]
Commissioners of Irish Lights ok
National Maritime College of Ireland ok
Irish Water Safety Association - none
Dublin_Port_Company previously Ballast Board no articles
voluntary[edit]
Federation of Irish Fishermen ok
Maritime Institute of Ireland needs refs - ok
National Maritime Museum of Ireland ok
Sea Scouts (Scouting Ireland) ok
History of Sea Scouting (Scouting Ireland) -claim - ok
Irish Underwater Council - nothing
Irish Exporters Association - nothing either
The Mission to Seafarers not tagged / do we want to?
Stella Maris ditto - these are global rather than local
sailing[edit]
Cruising Association of Ireland no article [3]
Royal National Lifeboat Institution ok
Royal St. George Yacht Club ok
The Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club
shipbuilding[edit]
verlome in cork - nothing
others nothing
Dublin: Vickers and others nothing, use Pat Sweeneys book
ancient ship building indigenous, Viking, later e.g. east India company
Media[edit]
Seascapes ok needs update,
People[edit]
global - not wpimar[edit]
Irish diaspora and related?
People - wpimar[edit]
strictly speaking we only wpimar those with a naval connection, there are some in this list who are soldiers, not sailors, we can drop them off later on
Category:Victims of the RMS Titanic not tagged
Matthew Aylmer, 1st Baron Aylmer now tagged - Matthew Aylmer, 1st Baron Aylmer (ca. 1650 – 18 August 1720) was an Irish Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Navy.
Hugo O'Donnell, 7th Duke of Tetuan unclaimed now tagged - not really ours?
William Ahern (Medal of Honor) - short ok
Augustus Agar <- need to claim - His father John Shelton Agar, was an Irishman from Woodmont, County Kerry - tagged
Thomas Andrews (shipbuilder) ok
Alexander Armstrong (explorer)
Ange René Armand, baron de Mackau <- need to claim - wild geese - tagged
Baron Aylmer <-- need to claim - born in Ireland
Augustus Warren Baldwin <-- need to claim - born in Ireland - tagged
Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield no tag - Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield Gottfried Freiherr[1] von Banfield (1890–1986) was the most successful Austro-Hungarian naval aeroplane pilot in the First World War. He was known as the 'Eagle of Trieste' among the first pilots of the Austrian navy,
William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford Brigadier General William Carr Beresford (1768-1854) illegitimate son of the first marquess of Waterford
Richard Brydges Beechey <- need to claim - tagged
James "Spanish" Blake <--- need to claim - or do we??? // tagged
Bindon Blood Stoney designed the quay walls at the River Liffey, making it a deepwater port. He designed Grattan Bridge, O'Connell Bridge, and Butt Bridge. He invented a diving bell, not tagged
Anne Bonny ok
Brendan ok
William Brown (admiral) ok "father of the Argentine Navy".
Hugh Talbot Burgoyne <-- need to claim - born in Ireland
George Callaghan Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Astley Callaghan GCB GCVO (December 21, 1852 – November 23, 1920) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy. His father's family had owned land near Cork city in Ireland that was being sold about the time of his birth there. In the 1870s his father Frederick Marcus Callaghan, J.P., still owned over 5,000 acres in County Cork and lived there and in Bath.[4] His grandfather Daniel had been an MP for Cork city in the 1830s-40s
Peter Campbell (naval officer)
James Leander Cathcart <-- need to claim - born in Ireland
Harold Cudmore - yacht racing skipper <-- need to claim - born in Ireland
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope wpimar
Dubhán = Dwayne of Hook Head Light
Edward Fegen - HMS Jervis Bay - need to claim
Damian Foxall : won the 2007/2008 Barcelona World Race - need to claim
Edmund Getty 1799-1857 - Ballast Master of the Belfast Ballast Board - not tagged
Robert Gibbings : say smething about his underwater art
Red Legs Greaves - need to claim
Charles Haliday 1789–1866 - Member of the Ballast Board
George Halpin George Halpin (Sr.) (1779? – 8 July 1854), was a prominent civil engineer and lighthouse builder, responsible for the construction of much of the Port of Dublin, several of Dublin's bridges, and a number of lighthouses; he is considered the founding father of the Irish lighthouse service.
His son, George Halpin (Jr.), was also a well-known lighthouse builder. - no article
David Harrel (1841-1939) Merchant navy, RIC, Under-Secretary for Ireland | not claimed - should we?
Bartholomew Hayden - Brazil Navy - no article
William Abbott Herdman not tagged == still not tagged, other than his study of the flora of the Irish Sea - is he one of ours?
Guglielmo Marconi not tagged
Patrick Keohane - polar explorer - need to claim - now tagged
Lieutenant Commander John Kerans - The Yangtse River Incident - claim - now tagged
Admiral Hammerton Killick Haiti - Irish father (check that) yes according to this book: (again check it oiut!) Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica after Emancipation - Matthew J. Smith - University of North Carolina Press.
John King (sailor) (1865–1938) Ballinrobe : United States Navy Medal of Honor twice. - claim - now tagged
Count Peter von Lacy Russian Field Marshal
Franz Moritz von Lacy Austrian field marshal. (son of Count Peter von Lacy)
William Lamport (1615 or 1611 - executed 1659) catholic evangelist, pirate & the original Zoro - not tagged yet
Eliza Lynch born in Cork - lover of President Francisco Solano López during the Paraguayan War (1865-1870)
Germyn Lynch (1441-1483) merchant sea captain - need to claim - now tagged
Peter Martyn (1772-1827) soldier Holy Roman Empire Austria
Richard Charles Mayne (1835 – 1892): RN Admiral and explorer -- need to claim - now tagged
Martin Thomas McMahon Irish-American soldier-diplomat
Robert Otway RN - supported the Brazilian cause during the Brazilian War of Independence. - Otway was born in the family home of Castle Otway (now ruined) in Tipperary, Ireland, - now tag
where is Jorge O'Brien - Captain of the Chilean Navy during the Chilean War of Independence
Colman Ó Cathasaig - shipwright - endangered !
Ambrosio O’Higgins was a military commander who dominated Chile and Peru while under Spanish control
John na Seoltadh Ó Máille - needs attention
Alejandro O'Reilly - not tagged - was a military commander who dominated Cuba, Florida and Louisiana while it was under Spanish control
Lieutenant Colonel Denis Pack (1772-1823), yet another Irishman. second-in-command to Brigadier General William Carr Beresford
Commodore Sir Home Riggs Popham (1762-1820) RN - Anglo-Irish family - Popham came from a family established in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland. Confusion has attended descriptions of the exact place of his birth – some sources cited Gibraltar or Morocco, but his obituary in The Gentleman’s Magazine identified Ireland.
Robert Reading early lighthouses
John Riley - mexico - Saint Patrick’s Battalion
Patrick Dalton, James O’Leary, Matthew Doyle, Francis O’Connor and Henry Hudson fought for mexico
Frederick Richards no tag - rn - Admiral of the Fleet born tipp
Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville not really imar
John Shaw (naval officer) - US Navy
Richard Roberts (sea captain) (sea captain) now tagged
John de Robeck -not tagged - Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Michael de Robeck, 1st Baronet GCB, GCMG, GCVO (10 June 1862 – 20 January 1928) was Royal Navy officer. - Born 10 June 1862 Naas, County Kildare, Ireland
Peter Warren (Royal Navy officer) -now tag - Sir Peter Warren, KB (10 March 1703 – 29 July 1752) was a British naval officer from Ireland who commanded the naval forces in the attack on the French fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia in 1745.
Thomas Johnson Westropp - antiquarian, folklorist and archaeologist. - why imar?
Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl - why imar?
Groups[edit]
Batallón San Patricio fought in five major battles during the United States-Mexican War (1846-1848
Places[edit]
Category:Fishing communities in Ireland
Category:Fishing communities in Northern Ireland
Category:Ports and harbours of Northern Ireland
Ringsend do
Seas[edit]
North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland) do
Celtic Sea to claim
Waterways[edit]
Settlements[edit]
waterfronts (bays, harbours, piers, quays, marinas)[edit]
use Coastal landforms of Ireland
Belfast Harbour and Belfast Lough merge?
Burtonport check
Dublin quays tagged
Bull Wall East wALL Great South Wall Bull Island Port of Waterford
Shannon Foynes Port company / authority
Mariners' Church, Dún Laoghaire
Lighthouses and Beacons[edit]
use List of lighthouses in Ireland List of lighthouses in Ireland rather than a manual list - just to catch all - will drop
History of lighthouses not ours - too global
Lightvessels in Ireland out of date
Galley Head Lighthouse station
Galley Head Lighthouse station
Rotten Island lighthouse not tagged
Boat designs[edit]
SB18 or the Sea Scouts Standard Design - nothing
Ships[edit]
to be checked[edit]
Saint Colum I File:Saint_colum_i_belfast.jpg
HMS Bluebell (1915) <~ claim
MV Ardenia freight ferry 1977 - claim and - (irish sea 1996-2002)
Tullaghmurray Lass imar - prawn fisher all 3 lost
HMS Riviera do - as , cross channel packet ship SS Riviera
TSS Duke of Clarence 1892 do
HSC Jaume II (redirect from HSC SeaCat Rapide)
MS Masarrah AKA MS Stena Hibernia aka St Columba
HSC Master Jet (redirect from HSC Sea Express 1)
MS European Mariner no claim
MS Baltic Ferry none
ancient[edit]
German[edit]
SM U-111 not for imar
SM U-96 not for imar
[edit]
issues[edit]
Long Éireannach tiny stub, drop??
Irish Naval Service Commissioned Rank Insignia ok
Irish Naval Service Enlisted Rank Insignia ok
Irish neutrality during World War II not
Plan W ww2 ok
ships[edit]
M1, M2, M3
M4, M5, M6,
Isallt
{{MPV|Shark}} or SS Shark
LÉ Deirdre (P20) decommissioned 2001, sold, scrapped 2014
LÉ Emer (P21) sold 2013
LÉ Aoife (P22) decommissioned jan 2015 -> Malta
LÉ James Joyce (P62) √ not tagged yet
LÉ Samuel Beckett (P61) √ not tagged
class[edit]
Samuel Beckett-class OPV nottgged
HMS[edit]
there must be more of interest to us
Age of Sail[edit]
Nuestra Señora del Socorro - armada - no article
Nonoalca not yet- http://vimeo.com/8058120 - single-handed Atlantic crossing - inadequate -inappropriate
Ships that transported "convicts" to Australia after the 1798 rebellion.[edit]
Marquis Cornwallis (1789 ship)
Lightships[edit]
Mercantile Marine[edit]
Ro Ro[edit]
MV Muirneag ro-ro 1979 - to claim
MS Clipper Pennant ro ro - 20007 - to claim
MS Clipper Point - ro-ro 2008 - to claim
MS Riverdance - roro 1977 - claimed by imar
MS Moondance - roro - 1978 - to claim
MS Seatruck Pace roro 2009 - do
MS Seatruck Panorama roro 2007 - do I MS European Mariner roro 2001 - do
MS Celtic Star roro 2010 - imar
MS Norcape roro 1979
MS Norcape roro 1979
MF Via Mare do - ro-ro 1976
MS European Envoy do - roro 1998
MS Stena Superfast VII ropax 2001 belfast - Cairnryan.
MS Stena Superfast VIII ropax 2001 belfast - Cairnryan.
MS Stena Europe 1981 ferry Fishguard—Rosslare
MS Normandy 1981 ferry.
HSC High Speed Craft[edit]
HSC Stena Explorer out of service Holyhead 2015
HSC Stena Voyager being scrapped in Sweden 2014
HSC Hellenic Wind (redirect from HSC SuperSeaCat Two) -claim
MS and MV[edit]
MS C.T.M.A. Vacancier aka City of Cork (2001-2002) aka Saint Patrick II (1998-2000) - start
MS Stena Scandinavica (1973) aka Saint Killian (1978-1981) aka Saint Killian II (1982-1998) - start
MS Epsilon - a stub of a stub
MS SPL Princess Anastasia (1986)
MS Ulysses is currently the largest ro-pax ferry operating on the Irish Sea and when launched (2001) was the world's largest car ferry in terms of car-carrying capacity.
MV Princess Victoria one of the earliest ro-ro ferries. Built in 1947, she operated from Stranraer to Larne. Sank in a storm 31 January 1953, with the loss of 133 lives.
PS[edit]
RMS[edit]
RMS Royal Adelaide (1838) PS - 150 died
Lifeboats[edit]
SS[edit]
SS Armenian why imar? belfast built perhaps
SS Brussels 1902 irish sea ferry - B class
SS Connemara 97 died
SS Noemijulia = Irish Hazel
SS Sirius (1837) London to Cork ferry PS
events[edit]
Category:Maritime incidents in Ireland
rochdale and prince of wales
wolfe tone landing - bantry longboat
Howth gun-running tagged
Larne gun-running not tagged
other gun running
others[edit]
Irish Sea fixed crossing not tagged
The Custom House not tagged
Leave these for now[edit]
these articles might have a wp:imar, but we lack the capacity to look after them
antiquity, myth and legend[edit]
Norse–Gaels (redirect from Norse-Irish)
Benjamin Hudson writer He specializes in the history of Celtic-speaking peoples in the British Isles in the Early and High Middle Ages, and in the Norse-Gaelic Irish Sea region of the same period.
Paul Dunbavin atlantis in irish sea?
Norse–Gaels do
Ímar]
Grania: She-King of the Irish Seas
Ragnall ua Ímair to claim?
Lir celtic sea god - ok
Llŷr welsh lir
Category:Voyagers in Celtic mythology
The Voyage of Snedgus and Mac Riagla
Dropped[edit]
Dropped People[edit]
Éric Tabarly (category People lost at sea) -dropped -forget