JEANIE JOHNSTON (Ireland)

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D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen
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JEANIE JOHNSTON (Ireland)

Post by D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen » Sun Apr 20, 2014 2:29 pm

Built 1998-2002 by The Jeanie Johnston (Ireland) Company Ltd., Blennerville, Tralee, for Dublin Docklands, Development Authority (operator Aiseanna Mara Teoranta)
Cost: €13.7m. port of registry Tralee, County Kerry.
Maiden voyage: March 2003, IMO number: 8633671, Call sign: EIJL, MMSI number: 250271000
Status: Museum ship
Three-masted barque, Gt:301, Displacement:518 t. (510 long tons) Length:47 m.(154' 2") o/a, 37.5 m.(123') on deck, Beam:8 m.(26' 3") Draft:4.6m.(15'1") Air draft:28m.(91'10")

Propulsion:2 × 290 hp. (216 kW.) Caterpillar 3306 diesel engines
1 × 50 kW. (67 hp.) bow thruster.
Sail plan:18 Duradon sails, 645 m2. (6,940 sq ft) sail area
Endurance:Under sail: 70 days, On 1 engine:17 days
Crew:40 (11 permanent and 29 voyage crew)

In 2003 the replica Jeanie Johnston sailed from Tralee to Canada and the United States visiting 32 US and Canadian cities and attracting over 100,000 visitors.
She took part in the Tall Ships Race from Waterford to Cherbourg in 2005 and finished 60th out of 65 ships.
Other notable Irish tall ships or sail training ships are the Asgard II (lost in the Bay of Biscay in 2008), the Dunbrody, the Lord Rank (N.I.)
and the Creidne (I.N.S.).
The replica is currently owned by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority who bought it in 2005 for a reported 2.7 million Euro,
which were used to clear outstanding loans on the vessel guaranteed by Tralee Town Council and Kerry County Council.
From 2006 to 2008 she was operated on their behalf by Rivercruise Ireland. During that time she carried approximately 980 sail trainees and over 2,500 passengers,
making regular visits to ports around Britain and Ireland, and also undertaking several trips to Spain each summer,
often carrying voyage crew who intended to join the Camino de Santiago. In between these voyages she would offer day-sails in Dublin Bay.
In early 2009 the Dublin Docklands Development Authority and Rivercruise Ireland could not reach agreement.
DDDA then offered the Department of Defence use of the ship as a training vessel for free (as a replacement for the sunken Asgard II),
but the offer was turned down.
The Department of Defence declared the Jeanie Johnston unsuitable because of her lack of speed, her required crew size of 11 and her inability to participate
in tall ships races. No alternative operator was found until mid-2010, when Galway-based company Aiseanna Mara Teoranta was appointed to operate the ship as a museum.
As of 2010, the ship is not in seagoing condition.
(Ireland 2000, 30 p. StG.?) Internet
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Arturo
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Re: JEANIE JOHNSTON (Ireland)

Post by Arturo » Tue Feb 03, 2015 9:10 pm

Jeanie Johnston (Emigrant Ship, Barque) 1847

The original Jeanie Johnston was built in 1847 on the banks of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec City, Canada. She was purchased in Liverpool by John Donovan and Sons of Tralee,Co. Displ. 700 t; 32 m (37.5 m o.a.); Passengers 200; crew 17; constructed of oak and pine, copper fastened. Her architect was the Scottish-born shipbuilder and master craftsman John Munn.


She sailed out of the small port of Tralee, County Kerry in South West Ireland. She was one of the most famous of the Irish emigrant vessels. On her 16 voyages, to Baltimore, New York and Quebec between 1848 and 1855, she never lost a passenger to disease or to the sea. Despite the seven week journey in very cramped and difficult conditions, no life was ever lost on board the ship- a remarkable achievement which is generally attributed to the ship’s captain, Castletownshend-born James Attridge and the experienced Ship’s Doctor, Dr. Richard Blennerhassett. During the Great Famine, she transported several thousand emigrants from Blennerville, the old Port of Tralee.


In 1858, she sank slowly, waterlogged, in mid-Atlantic. All aboard were rescued. Emigration to foreign lands has been a feature of Irish life for centuries, but the mass exodus and suffering endured during the mid-19th Century are unmatched in the history of any nation during a time of peace. Burdened with the payment of excessive rents to absentee landlords - the dispossessed Irish depended almost entirely on the potato for survival. The successive failure of the potato crop beginning in the Autumn of 1845 triggered a famine of calamitous proportions. Two million people either died or emigrated, some, in virtual panic, crowded into ill-equipped, unsanitary vessels and died of disease or hunger before ever reaching the New World. Many of the Irish Immigrants distinguished themselves in their adopted land, among them Commodore John Barry, from Wexford, who is known as the “Father of the American Navy. Others are Bishop George Berkley, several institutions are named after him, James Hoban, Architect of the White House and Fr. John Flanagan, founder of Boystown in Omaha, Nebraska.


While the journey was always perilous, and the accommodation cramped and rudimentary, some got to travel under responsible captains and in seaworthy craft. The memory of the Jeanie Johnston has been salvaged by the people of Ireland.


The replica ship was designed by Fred Walker, former Chief Naval Architect with the Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England.


The recreation was modelled closely on that of the 17th century Dutch East India ship, The Batavia.


See Topic: “Batavia (Dutch Merchant Vessel) 1628”


Ireland 1999, S.G.?, Scott:1168

U.S.A. 1999, S.G.?, Scott: 3286


Source: Warious web sites.
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