Our scuttled ship heritage

THE words shipbuilding and Dublin are not often seen together – Harland and Wolfe in Belfast and the Verolme dockyard in Cork fit much better.

However, some of the most interesting vessels of the past were built in the Liffey shipyards.

There was a vibrant shipbuilding industry in Dublin for nearly two centuries and the story of the shipyards, the ships they built and the people who worked on them is told here for the first time.