4,000 Irish Shipwrecks

The Wreck Viewer is a novel interactive map which shows the locations of 4,000 shipwrecks roughly the shores of Ireland, dating dorsum equally far equally 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 at that spot is a known location. 78% of the wrecks inwards the Wreck Inventory bring no known precise location. If you lot guide a wreck on the map you lot tin read the wreck description. This includes details on the transportation name, type of vessel as well as the appointment the vessel sank. The details too comprise (where available) the wreck summary description which provides details on the vessel's history, voyage, cargo, passengers as well as the storey of its loss. At acquaint alone 20% of ships inwards the database bring a summary description.