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=​= =Coffin Ships= The condition of the ships in which tens of thousands of people emigrated were appalling as many middle-men used sub-standard vessels and carried too many people, with a view to making a quick profit. On one of these coffin ships, of the 348 passengers, 117 died at sea; on another, going to Canada, 158 died of a total of 476 passengers.

The Jeanie Johnston The Jeanie Johnston was built in the shipyard Blennerville just nearly two miles outside Tralee, on the 19th of april 2000

__Emily’s Coffin Ships Poem__ Famine was a bad time for people in Ireland. A potato was the only food that they depended on. Many died and suffered terribly from hunger. In 1945 the blight began. No more potatoes. Emigration to America in coffin ships.