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12ft punt
A. K. Ilen
Aigh Vie - Manx Nobby
Curach Adhmaid
Currach - Blasket Island
Currach - Inisheer Island
Currach - Inishturk Island
Currach - Inishkea Island
Currach - Scattery Island
Drontheim 
Fishing Smack - Richard Hall
Free State
Galway hooker
Galway Hooker - Gleoiteog
Hanorah - Heir Island lobster Boat
Kerry Naomhóg
Kinsale Hooker
Lake Angling Boat - Lough Corrib
Lough Erne YC - Model 1
Lough Erne YC - Model 2
Lough Erne YC - Model 3
Lough Erne YC - Model 4
Lough Erne YC - Model 5
Lough Erne YC - Model 6
Lough Erne YC - Model 7
Lough Erne YC - Model 8
Lough Erne YC - Model 9
Naomh Brigid
Naomh Lua
Rankin dinghy
Saoirse
Seine Follower Boat
Tern - Hegarty Lobster Boat
Three Hand Kerry Naomhog - Model
Topaz - Manx Nobby
Water Nymph 1885
West Cork Mackerel Yawl
Boatbuilders
 
Jimmy Furey
Walter Levigne
McDonalds - Model 1
McDonalds - Model 2
McDonalds - Model 3
McDonalds - Model 4
McDonalds - Model 5
Tyrells - 35ft Motor Fishing Vessel
Tyrells - Model 1
Tyrells - Model 2
Tyrells - Model 3
Tyrells - Model 4
Tyrells - Model 5
Tyrells - Model 6
Tyrells - Model 7
Tyrells - Model 8
Tyrells - Model 9
Tyrells - Shipwright
Daingean Museum Store
 
Four Oared Boat
Two-masted carvel-built boat
GreenCastle Museum
 
GreenCastle Museum Model 1
GreenCastle Museum Model 2
GreenCastle Museum Model 3
GreenCastle Museum Model 4
Turlough Park Museum
 
Currach Collection
Museum Interior


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Name of vessel
......Topaz
Designer
......
Builder of vessel
......Fisheries School Baltimore, Co. Cork
Date of vessel
......1899
Some given dimensions of the yacht (LOA, LWL, Draft etc)
PRINCIPAL PARTICULARS (calculated)
Length Overall (On Deck).........................11.5m (37ft 9in)
Length L.W.L..........................................10.9m (35ft 9in)
Beam......................................................3.8m (10ft 6in)
Draught ..................................................1.25m (4ft 1in)
Displacement...........................................17.27t (11tons Official tonnage)
Cp .........................................................0.590
Scale of the model
......Full Size Vessel
Owner's name / Home port.
......
General Description:
The Topaz is a Nobby built at the Fisheries School in Baltimore, Co. Cork in 1899 at a cost of £130 on behalf of the Congesteded Districts Board. Currently lying at Renvyle Co. Galway.
Any other information.

The Congested Districts Board (CDB) was established in 1891. Its objective was to relieve poverty in the overpopulated or ‘congested’ districts of the west of Ireland. Its activities included land reform, improvements in infrastructure and housing and the establishment of craft industries.

It took over responsibility for fisheries from the Board of Works and set about a radical overhaul of the native fishing industry which was then dominated by small inshore craft. The CDB introduced larger, decked boats, powered by sail, such as the Scottish Zulu and the Manx Nobby, which had proved themselves in English and Scottish waters. Instructors in building and fishing methods were brought from Scotland to promote building in Irish boatyards and fishing by Irish fishermen

In all, by 1909 a total of 189 new boats had been commissioned; 90 were built in Irish boatyards, including 30 boats plus two hookers in Co. Galway.

During the 30 years of its existence the CDB made an enormous contribution to improving the conditions of the communities for which it was responsible. The board was dissolved in 1923 and its staff was absorbed into the Irish Land Commission when its functions were assumed by the Department of Fisheries and Rural Industries.

 

Recording of this vessel has been part funded by the

Heritage Council of Ireland

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