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Ships that carried Irish and Scottish migrants during the 19th century
A coffin ship (Irish: long cónra) is an idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders displaced
Coffin_ship
Overinsured ship
A coffin ship is any ship that has been overinsured and is therefore worth more to its owners sunk than afloat. These were hazardous places to work in
Coffin_ship_(insurance)
Topics referred to by the same term
Coffin ship may refer to: The Coffin Ship, a 1911 silent film Coffin ship, an idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish and Scottish migrants
Coffin_ship_(disambiguation)
American whaling family
the family owned three whaling ships (whalers) and a trade vessel. In 1763, six Coffin men were captains of Nantucket ships which sailed as far as South
Coffin_(whaling_family)
1911 American film
The Coffin Ship is a 1911 American silent adventure film, a nautical melodrama produced by the Thanhouser Company of New Rochelle, New York. Featuring
The_Coffin_Ship
American sailor (1802–1821)
"Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)". While there is no evidence that the song is specifically about Coffin or the ship Essex (and the lyrics are in
Owen_Coffin
Public park in County Mayo, Ireland
reinforce the stark visual impact of Ireland's National Famine Memorial, the Coffin Ship, a sculpture which stands prominently in the park. The unveiling of the
Murrisk_Millennium_Peace_Park
1845–1852 mass starvation in Ireland
River used to quarantine ships near Quebec City. Overcrowded, poorly maintained, and badly provisioned vessels known as coffin ships sailed from small, unregulated
Great_Famine_(Ireland)
Disease outbreak in North America
in 1847, during the Great Famine, aboard crowded and disease-ridden "coffin ships". In Canada, it is estimated that more than 20,000 people died during
1847 North American typhus epidemic
1847_North_American_typhus_epidemic
Burial in which a ship or boat is used
the coffin along with the corpse of the dead. Also, the coffins were found strategically close to water, either rivers or small streams of sea. Ship burials
Ship_burial
1926 novel by B. Traven
directly from the German Das Totenschiff; in English, they are called coffin ships. Traven first wrote Das Totenschiff in English in 1923 or 1924. Editor
The_Death_Ship
Monument in County Galway, Ireland
ships' sails. Each sail is engraved with the names of 50 ships which carried those escaping the famine. These ships, sometimes known as coffin ships,
Galway_Famine_Ship_Memorial
Royal Navy Admiral (1759–1839)
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Coffin was born in Boston and served in the navy on a number of ships during the War of Independence. He fought
Sir_Isaac_Coffin,_1st_Baronet
Legal limit to which a ship may be loaded
line mark placed above the deepest load line in saltwater. Ballast tank Coffin ship (insurance) Plimsoll shoe Sailing ballast SS London – sank in 1866 and
Load_line_(watercraft)
Archaeological site in Chengdu, China
the Qin dynasty (221–206BC). Hanging coffins Ship burial Huang Zhiling (15 March 2017). "Ancient boat-shaped coffins found in Sichuan". China Daily. Retrieved
Joint tombs of boat-shaped coffins
Joint_tombs_of_boat-shaped_coffins
Island in the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada
Robert Whyte, pseudonymous author of the 1847 Famine Ship Diary: The Journey of a Coffin Ship, described how on arrival at Grosse Isle the Irish emigrant
Grosse_Isle
Polish composer (born 1984)
Stravinsky, miniature for violin and piano, 2018 Coffin Ship for cello and accordion, 2018 Coffin Ship for soprano saxophone and accordion, 2018 sieben
Tomasz_Skweres
Ship; replica of a three-masted barque from 1847
lack of mortality contrasted sharply with coffin ships that carried many other Irish immigrants. In 1855, the ship was sold to William Johnson of North Shields
Jeanie_Johnston
Topics referred to by the same term
industrialist SS Howard E. Coffin, a Liberty ship This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Howard Coffin. If an internal link incorrectly
Howard_Coffin
Ethnic group native to the island of Ireland
passengers who were simply viewed as cargo in the eyes of the ship workers. Notable coffin ships include the Jeanie Johnston and the Dunbrody. There are statues
Irish_people
Novelist
stoker's helper in extremely difficult conditions on board a "death ship" (or coffin ship), which sails on suspicious voyages around the European and African
B._Traven
Irish farmer and cooper (1823–1858)
about the conditions on the Washington Irving. Ships like the Washington Irving were known as coffin ships, as dead bodies were thrown into the sea. Kennedy
Patrick_Kennedy_(farmer)
Group of infectious diseases
forms of quarantine, who had contracted the disease aboard the crowded coffin ships in fleeing the Great Irish Famine. Officials neither knew how to provide
Typhus
related) and their children. Often 50% died on passage (they were known as "coffin ships"). However, the mortality rate on the Dunbrody was exceptionally low
Dunbrody_(1845)
Surname list
House of Coffin is an ancient English family of Norman Origin, which originated in Devonshire. The family lineage goes back to Sir Richard Coffin, a knight
Coffin_(surname)
British politician and social reformer
dangers of 'coffin ships' (ships that were highly insured in case of sinking, with minimum consideration given to seafarer safety). These ships were said
Samuel_Plimsoll
American educator and abolitionist (1798–1877)
Levi Coffin Jr. (October 28, 1798 – September 16, 1877) was an American Quaker, Republican, abolitionist, farmer, businessman and humanitarian. An active
Levi_Coffin
World War II Liberty ship of the United States
SS Howard E. Coffin was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Howard E. Coffin, one of the founders of the
SS_Howard_E._Coffin
Beaumont has convinced Simmons to have his new ship built with Frazers who tells Elizabeth that it is the last ship Frazers will be building for him. He tells
List_of_Onedin_Line_episodes
2007 Russian film
(colloquially referred to as Cargo 200). Zhurov arranges to have the coffin shipped to his apartment, where he opens it and throws the corpse on the bed
Cargo_200_(film)
Irish town leader
Galway, 1993. Galway - A Maritime Tradition:Ships, boats and people, Brendan O'Donnell, Galway, 2001. Coffin Ship: The Wreck of the Brig St. John, William
Eóin_Concannon
American shipowner and whale oil merchant
Coffin and Sons. In 1791, at age 27, Coffin was the captain of a whale oil ship of 160 tons. During July 1791, Coffin became the captain of the ship named
Zenas_Coffin
Cargo ship, sunk in 1977 and a political scandal in Austria
– television documentary about the Lucona by National Geographic TV. Coffin ship (insurance) Gerald Freihofner Mearns, David L. (2018). The Shipwreck
Lucona
British actor (1932–2019)
Boat Comes In Dixon 3 episodes The Onedin Line Ned Harris Episode: "Coffin Ships" 1978 Enemy at the Door Raymond Girard Episode: "By Order of the Fuhrer";
W._Morgan_Sheppard
Celtic cross
Corporation erected a hospital on the island. Irish immigrants, who arrived on coffin ships, were quarantined there. The memorial commemorates the 850 people who
Great Hunger Memorial (Deer Island, Massachusetts)
Great_Hunger_Memorial_(Deer_Island,_Massachusetts)
McMahon, The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine (NYU Press, 2021) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dunbrody (ship, 2001)
Dunbrody_(2001)
and other forms of quarantine, who had contracted the disease aboard coffin ships. In the United States, epidemics occurred in Baltimore, Memphis and Washington
Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century
Diseases_and_epidemics_of_the_19th_century
Gothic novel. The ship that brought Dracula to Whitby with only the dead captain left, hands bound to the wheel, echoes the "Coffin ships" of the Famine
Irish_Gothic_literature
The Rescue of Mr. Henpeck Little Old New York Flames and Fortune The Coffin Ship Foxy Grandma Courting Across the Court Lorna Doone The Declaration of
List of Thanhouser Company films
List_of_Thanhouser_Company_films
Coffin in the Mountain (2014) Coffin Rock (2009) A Coffin for the Sheriff (1965) The Coffin Ship (1911) Coffy (1973) C.O.G. (2025) Cohabitation (1918)
List_of_films:_C
1930 book by Harold Innis
led to European immigration and the rapid settling of the West. The "coffin ships" that carried the lumber to Europe brought back emigrants as a "return
The_Fur_Trade_in_Canada
Irish landowner (died 1847)
for many of them aboard ships destined for Quebec. Ships like the ones Mahon chartered were often referred to as Coffin Ships for the inhumane conditions
Denis Mahon (British Army officer)
Denis_Mahon_(British_Army_officer)
Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament
Famine year 1847 bore personal witness to the conditions aboard the "coffin ships" that carried Irish emigrants to North America, and who converted to
Stephen_de_Vere
for poverty and arson, a lot by landlords seeking insurance money on "coffin ships" of buildings. By 1975, the South Bronx was the most devastated urban
New_York_City_ethnic_enclaves
Irish local leader
Galway, 1993. Galway – A Maritime Tradition:Ships, boats and people, Brendan O'Donnell, Galway, 2001. Coffin Ship: The Wreck of the Brig St. John, William
Thomas_Folan
American mariner, politician, and triangle trader
Micajah Coffin (August 18, 1734 – May 25, 1827) was an American mariner, triangle trader, and politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House
Micajah_Coffin
American novelist
Scientist Rises", with Desmond W. Hall, Astounding, November 1932 "The Coffin Ship", with Desmond W. Hall, as Anthony Gilmore, 1933 "Under Arctic Ice",
Harry_Bates_(writer)
Irish shipwreck
1852, thousands of people emigrated from Ireland every week on ships known as "coffin ships". During these years Limerick port was the point of emigration
Edmond_(1833)
Multiplatform story set within Doctor Who universe
Daleks attempt to steal samples from a Great Vampire in the Ninth's coffin ship to create a group of immortal Dalek/vampire hybrids, but the Doctors
Time_Lord_Victorious
Famine in Ireland from 1845 to 1852
south. With the mass emigration of the famine era, the horrors of the 'coffin ships' and 1847 have ever since been associated in the popular mind, according
Chronology of the Great Famine
Chronology_of_the_Great_Famine
United States historic place
and the Sterling Manufacturing Company 1943-2003. Sterling produced coffins, ship parts, and water heaters during World War II. Hupmobile Dealership (Washington
Hupmobile_Building
Bacterial infection spread by body lice
and other forms of quarantine, who had contracted the disease aboard coffin ships. As many as 900,000 deaths have been attributed to the typhus fever during
Epidemic_typhus
Ship of the line of the French Navy
Orient was an 118-gun Océan-class ship of the line of the French Navy best known for her role as flagship of Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers'
French_ship_Orient_(1791)
G. Wynn, Edgar Kennedy Drama Cally's Comet William Garwood Drama The Coffin Ship William Garwood Adventure The Colonel and the King Marie Eline, William
List of American films of 1911
List_of_American_films_of_1911
Ship lost in 1912 off Western Australia
September 1946). "After 30 Years Mystery Still Surrounds the Wreck of Coffin-Ship Koombana". The Sunday Times (Perth, WA). Retrieved 12 March 2012. Cox
SS_Koombana
named ceremonial King of the Claddagh in the 1960s.[citation needed] Coffin Ship:The Wreck of the Brig St. John, William Henry, Dublin, 2009. ISBN 978-1-85635-631-2
Martin_Oliver_(captain)
British actor (born 1991)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009). He also appeared as Henry Coffin in the film In the Heart of the Sea (2015). Dillane plays a recurring role
Frank_Dillane
Irish sculptor
central character, the murderous Pius Mulvey as he haunts the decks of a coffin ship and becomes an emaciated ghost, living among the hundreds of Irish emigrants
Rowan_Gillespie
Character from the novel Moby-Dick
hammock, "according to the usual sea-custom", but rather that a canoe-like coffin be made for him when he dies. Sickness does not overtake Queequeg. While
Queequeg
Canadian citizens with full or partial Irish heritage
of Irish immigrants had already arrived on Prince Edward Island. One coffin ship landed on the Island in 1847. The first waves of Irish immigrants took
Irish_Canadians
History of Sligo, Ireland
Buidhe. Dublin: Oifig an tSoláthair – via archive.org. "Coffin ships: the immigration ships that sailed to Grosse Isle, Canada's immigration point".
History_of_Sligo
2026 series of The Celebrity Traitors
Audiences. Retrieved 1 October 2026. Bushby, Helen (1 October 2026). "Chaos, coffins and 'Claudiapatra' steal the show in Celebrity Traitors". BBC News. Retrieved
The Celebrity Traitors series 2
The_Celebrity_Traitors_series_2
Mid-19th-century cast-iron coffin
Island. The cast-iron coffins or burial cases were popular in the mid–19th century among wealthier families. While pine coffins in the 1850s would have
Fisk_metallic_burial_case
Impact of 1845–1852 mass starvation
Pagan metal band Primordial also have a song about the Famine named "The Coffin Ships" on their 2005 album The Gathering Wilderness.[citation needed] Another
Legacy of the Great Irish Famine
Legacy_of_the_Great_Irish_Famine
in North America. Many of the immigrants who arrived on "fever ships" or "coffin ships" during the diaspora sparked by the Great Famine of Ireland suffered
List of neighbourhoods in Montreal
List_of_neighbourhoods_in_Montreal
ship-repair trade began to slacken off in 1876 with the establishment of the Plimsoll line, which saw the elimination of the so-called coffin ships and
History of the Falkland Islands
History_of_the_Falkland_Islands
American whaler
Nantucket. Mayhew was the uncle of Lucretia Coffin Mott, daughter of his sister, Anna Folger, and Thomas Coffin. Folger's grandson, William Mayhew Folger
Mayhew_Folger
1806 ceremony in London
corpse in a lead coffin, but there was insufficient lead on board to make one. Beatty therefore obtained the largest water cask on the ship, known as a "leaguer"
State funeral of Horatio Nelson
State_funeral_of_Horatio_Nelson
Battalion in the Mexican Army during the Mexican–American War
service shortly or sometimes immediately after arrival in America in coffin ships with promises of salaries and land after the war.[citation needed] Numerous
Saint_Patrick's_Battalion
2005 studio album by Primordial
"End of All Times (Martyrs Fire)" O'Floinn, MacUiliam 7:42 5. "The Coffin Ships" MacUiliam 9:58 6. "Tragedy's Birth" O'Floinn, MacUiliam 8:31 7. "Cities
The_Gathering_Wilderness
American actor and film director
The Colonel and the King 1911 Flames and Fortune The Rescuer 1911 The Coffin Ship 1911 Courting Across the Court The Lover 1911 Won by Wireless Wireless
William_Garwood
Memorial in Montreal
2023. Author Pierre Saint-Arnaud "Montreal Irish walk in remembrance of coffin ship victims". Irish Central. 23 July 2009. Retrieved 6 February 2011. "Atlas
Irish_Commemorative_Stone
2006 studio album by Cruachan
Title Length 1. "Shelob" 3:05 2. "The Brown Bull of Cooley" 5:26 3. "Coffin Ships" (instrumental) 1:50 4. "The Great Hunger" 6:10 5. "The Old Woman in
The_Morrigan's_Call
British politician (1836–1914)
supervision. Chamberlain also sought to end the practice of over-insuring coffin ships, but despite endorsements by Tory Democrats Lord Randolph Churchill and
Joseph_Chamberlain
2007 studio album by Primordial
Golden Spiral" 2. "The Gathering Wilderness" 3. "Sons of the Morrigan" 4. "The Coffin Ships" 5. "Song of the Tomb" 6. "Gods to the Godless"
To_the_Nameless_Dead
British philanthropist and educationist (1819–1900)
in 1850 he travelled steerage to New York on one of the notorious “coffin ships”, contracting fever and, on arrival, remaining in hospital for some months
Vere_Foster
Hallucinations du baron de Münchausen), directed by Georges Méliès – (France) The Coffin Ship, produced by the Thanhouser Company David Copperfield, directed by George
1911_in_film
American ship sunk by a whale (1799–1820)
Essex was an American whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, which was launched in 1799. On November 20, 1820, while at sea in the southern Pacific
Essex_(whaleship)
2018 comic novel written by Jonas Jonasson
and nearby coffin shop isn't going well, she still agrees to let the two stay in the coffin shop. With the help of Allan and Julius, her coffin business
The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
The_Accidental_Further_Adventures_of_the_Hundred-Year-Old_Man
Scottish political reformer
Thames by day. An attempt to ship them out to Botany Bay in the convict transport Ye Canada had failed, when in true 'coffin-ship' tradition, her timbers were
Thomas_Muir_of_Huntershill
2024 American animated film
installment. The film stars the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Pierre Coffin, Joey King, Miranda Cosgrove, Stephen Colbert, Sofía Vergara, and Will Ferrell
Despicable_Me_4
The Irish-born signatories of the American Declaration of Independence Coffin ships The American Irish Historical Society Early Irish Immigration to USA
List_of_Irish_Americans
American author
debut book, a collection of eight short stories entitled The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories received the Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for
Ethan_Rutherford
Operation Unicorn, the plan for the Queen's death in Scotland. Elizabeth's coffin lay at rest in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh from 12 to 13 September
Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II
Death_and_state_funeral_of_Elizabeth_II
Film by Robert Eggers
making a pact with the Devil. Orlok sets sail for Wisburg inside his coffin on a ship with plague-carrying rats. Meanwhile, Ellen, under Orlok's influence
Nosferatu_(2024_film)
2013 studio album by Thee Oh Sees
Floating Coffin is the fourteenth studio album by the American garage rock band Thee Oh Sees, released on April 16, 2013, on Castle Face Records. The album
Floating_Coffin
advantage of this offer and headed to Canada on what came to be called the "coffin ships" because of their high death rates. Once in Canada, many Irish walked
Demographic history of the United States
Demographic_history_of_the_United_States
List of ships with the same or similar names
the Seas (clipper), an 1852 clipper ship built by Donald McKay at Boston A song about the clipper by David Coffin MS Sovereign (formerly MS Sovereign
Sovereign_of_the_Seas
Many were not only destitute but weakened by typhus contracted on the coffin ships that had brought them. To contain the health risk, a quarantine hospital
History of Irish Americans in Boston
History_of_Irish_Americans_in_Boston
Ship which sank in 1849
Irish Odyssey, which was broadcast on 17 March 2011 on CBC Television. Coffin ship "Hannah, a Maryport brig built in 1826". mightyseas.co.uk. 2010. Retrieved
Hannah_(brig)
D.C. Retrieved 17 January 2012 Monogan, David (24 March 2013). "From Coffin Ships To Triumph Abroad, Museums Tell Of Ireland's Haunting Diaspora". Forbes
The National Irish American Museum of Washington, D.C.
The_National_Irish_American_Museum_of_Washington,_D.C.
of 1855 Coffin ship Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century Quarantine Steerage Act of 1819 Russell, William Clark (1893). "The Emigrant Ship – Volume
Passenger_Act_of_1882
Japanese light novel series
Chaika: The Coffin Princess (Japanese: 棺姫のチャイカ, Hepburn: Hitsugi no Chaika) is a Japanese light novel series written by Ichirō Sakaki and illustrated by
Chaika:_The_Coffin_Princess
2015 film by Ron Howard
as William Bond, the captain's steward Frank Dillane as Henry Coffin (based on Owen Coffin), Pollard's cousin Edward Ashley as Barzillai Ray Jordi Mollà
In the Heart of the Sea (film)
In_the_Heart_of_the_Sea_(film)
Village near Croagh Patrick, Ireland
Patrick. Ireland's National Famine Memorial, which abstractly resembles a coffin ship filled with dying people, is sited within the park and was designed by
Murrisk
uk/collections/objects/386081.html. Campey, Lucille H. “What about the ‘Coffin’ Ships.” An Unstoppable Force: the Scottish Exodus to Canada, National Heritage
Donald_Manson
Indonesian novelist and feminist (1936–2018)
Nurhayati Srihardini Siti Nukatin Coffin (29 February 1936 – 4 December 2018), better known by her pen name Nh. Dini (sometimes NH Dini in English), was
Nh._Dini
American drug trafficker (1925–2014)
heroin smuggling operation involving the use of coffins containing dead U.S. soldiers being shipped home for burial to move heroin into the United States
Ike_Atkinson
Cargo ship wrecked at England in 1885
Dmitry (Russian: Дмитрий listen) was a Russian cargo ship that was wrecked at Whitby, England, in 1885. The vessel had been travelling from Antwerp, Belgium
Russian_ship_Dmitry
2008 American film by Howard McCain
Night falls as Kainan retrieves some items from his ship, says goodbye to his wife's submerged coffin, then destroys his distress beacon just as Freya sees
Outlander_(film)
travel, tourism, insurance
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