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Tuesday, December 1, 2020

4,000 Irish Shipwrecks


The Wreck Viewer is a novel interactive map which shows the locations of 4,000 shipwrecks simply about the shores of Ireland, dating dorsum every minute far every minute the 16th century. The map was created yesteryear Ireland's National Monuments Service (NMS) to assistance furnish access to as well as visualize the NMS’s Wreck Inventory.

Each ruby dot on the map represents a wreck for which in that place is a known location. 78% of the wrecks inwards the Wreck Inventory convey no known precise location. If y'all conduct a wreck on the map y'all tin read the wreck description. This includes details on the send name, type of vessel as well as the appointment the vessel sank. The details likewise comprise (where available) the wreck summary description which provides details on the vessel's history, voyage, cargo, passengers as well as the floor of its loss. At introduce solely 20% of ships inwards the database convey a summary description.