Are we all on-board for a a voyage back in time?

Between March 30, 1883 and May 30, 1884, a Quaker named James Hack Tuke organised 11 ships to go on 15 sailings: nine to Boston and six to Québec, to transport 3,300 men, women and children from dirt-poor — (literally) — families from Elly Bay, a small inlet of Blacksod Bay in north-west Mayo, to make a better life for themselves in the ‘New World’.

The roll call of these ships is as follows: S.S. Austrian, S.S. Buenos Ayrean, S.S. Canadian, S.S. Corean, S.S. Grecian, S.S. Manitoban, S.S. Nestorian, S.S. Phoenician, S.S. Prussian, S.S. Scandinavian, and S.S. Waldensian.

Blacksod Bay is perhaps the finest, safest natural deep-water port in Europe, not just in Ireland. It is capable of accommodating modern-day cruise liners; even several at the same.