Ship Models

The largest ship built in Ireland was the 72,000 ton Irish Spruce. Built at Verolme Cork Dockyard and launched in February 1983, she was wrecked off South Korea in September, 2000.

The Muirchú was a ship in the service of Irish Free State's Coastal and Marine Service. She was the former Royal Navy ship HMY Helga and was involved in shelling Liberty Hall in Dublin from the River Liffey with her pair of 12-pounder naval guns during the Easter Rising of 1916. Helga was purchased by the Irish Free State in 1923 and renamed Muirchú, 'Hound of the Sea'. She sank off the Wexford coast after disposal in 1947.