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Augustus Agar 75px|alt=Photo submitted by Simon Manchee Jan 4, 1890 Dec 30, 1968 He joined the Royal Navy in 1904. He took part in many actions during World War I. In late 1918 he worked with the British Secret Intelligence Service. He was the only man to be knighted based entirely on his exploits as a spy. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for sinking the Oleg, a Bolshevik Russian cruiser. He saw action in World War II born in Kandy, Ceylon. His father John Shelton Agar, was an Irishman from Woodmont, County Kerry
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Thomas Andrews   Feb 7, 1873 Apr 15, 1912 Businessman and shipbuilder; managing director and head of the draughting department for the Belfast shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff. Andrews was the shipbuilder in charge of the plans for the ocean liner RMS Titanic. He was travelling on board the Titanic during its maiden voyage when it hit an iceberg on 14 April 1912 and was one of the 1,517 people who perished in the disaster. born at Ardara House, Comber, County Down
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Alexander Armstrong
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 1818 Jul 4, 1899 Naval surgeon, explorer, and author who from 1850–1854 sailed the arctic on HMS Investigator under the command of Robert John Le Mesurier McClure in search of the lost expedition of explorer Sir John Franklin. He became director-general of the Royal Navy’s medical department. He was awarded a KCB in 1871.[1] born Donegal
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Ange René Armand   1788|Feb|17} May 13, 1855 French naval officer and politician. Descendant of an ancient family of Ireland who followed King James II to France
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[[Baron Aylmer|Matthew Aylmer]] File:GG-Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer.jpg 1650 1720 Baron Aylmer born in Ireland
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Augustus Warren Baldwin
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 Oct 1, 1776 Jan 5, 1866 Joined the merchant navy in 1792. He was commissioned Royal Navy lieutenant in 1800. He participated in the bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807, and in 1808 received a gold medal and a commander’s commission for his part in the capture of the russian ship Sewolod (Vsevolod. Although retired from the navy, he was promoted to admiral in 1862.[2] born near Lisnagat in County Cork
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Robert Barber
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 1749 1783 quartermaster on HMS Adventure during Captain Cook's Second Voyage 1772-1775. On the 31 December 1772 he became an A.B. He was Master of HMS Mercury when he died.[3] born in Kilkenny
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John Barry   1745 Sep 13, 1803 "The Father of the American Navy"; an officer in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War and later in the United States Navy. He commanded Lexington, Raleigh, and Alliance. He won the final naval battle of the American Revolution off the coast of Cape Canaveral on March 10, 1783. born in Tacumshane, County Wexford
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Edward Bransfield
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 1785 1852 Polar explorer. Discoverer of the Antarctica continent, (mainland rather than islands), on 30 January 1820.[4] Bransfield Strait, Bransfield Island, Bransfield Trough and Mount Bransfield are named after him, as is the RRS Bransfield. born in Ballinacurra, County Cork
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Francis Beaufort   1745 Sep 13, 1803 Creator of the Beaufort scale for indicating wind force. He entered the British Navy at 13 and served on HMS Colossus and HMS Latona before being transferred to HMS Aquilon, which participated in the ‘Glorious First of June’. With his brother-in-law he devised a system which could transmit a message from Dublin to Galway in eight minutes. An Alaskan sea is named after Beaufort. born in Tacumshane, County Wexford
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Hugh Talbot Burgoyne   Jul 17, 1833 Sep 7, 1870 Awarded the Victoria Cross, as a Royal Navy lieutenant, serving in the Crimean War, he landed at a beach where the Russian army were in strength, without covering fire, hr set fire to corn stores and ammunition dumps and destroyed enemy equipment. born in Dublin
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James "Spanish" Blake
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 1560 Feb 20, 1635 spy born in Galway
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William Bligh   Sep 9, 1754 Dec 7, 1817 In 1800 he completed a major survey of Dublin harbour and recommended that the North Bull Wall should be constructed to prevent sand building up in the mouth of the harbour. He correctly forecast that this would create a natural scouring action that would deepen the river channel, and sand gradually accumulated along the side of the North Bull Wall resulting in the modern Bull Island. None [1]
Anne Bonny   Mar 8, 1697 Apr 25, 1782 Pirate born "Anne Cormac" in Kinsale, County Cork. [2]
Brendan   484 May 16, 577 Brendan "the Navigator", a legendary voyager, may have travelled to America. born in Ciarraighe Luachra (Fenit) in County Kerry,
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William Brown   Jun 22, 1777 Mar 3, 1857 Brown's victories in the Independence War, the Argentina-Brazil War, and the Guerra Grande in Uruguay earned the respect and appreciation of the Argentine people, and today he is regarded as one of Argentina's national heroes. Creator and first admiral of the country's maritime forces, he is commonly known as the "father of the Argentine Navy". born in Foxford, County Mayo. [5][6][7][8]
Michael Byrne
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 1761 A near-blind fiddler who served in the Royal Navy. His sixth ship, in 1787, was the Bounty under Captain Bligh. He survived the wreck of the Pandora. He was acquitted of the charge of mutiny. He later served under Bligh's nephew, Francis Bond, on the Prompte. born in Kilkenny
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Baugh (Bagh, Bough, Boghe), William (c.1587–1619?), pirate

William Beatty (surgeon)

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artist, naval officer, and marine surveyor; born London - strongly associated with Ireland, spending long periods of residence there between 1835 and 1876: he married an Irish wife, carried out survey work of the Irish coastline, and exhibited many seascape paintings with Irish themes in Ireland.


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Fought in the Irish Confederate Wars refused amnesty and turned Tory, captured and sold with 300 others to Barbadian planters by Cromwellian forces. With three fellow Irish slaves stole a lugger, while loading sugar, and escaped. Joined L'Olonnois who, in time, appointed Greaves captain of one of his ships, crewed by escaped Irish slaves. He captured Margarita and looted a fortune in pearls. He retired but was arrested and sentenced to hang. He escaped after an earthquake and went whaling. Eventually he did retire, became respectable and died of natural old age.

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  1. ^ Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
  2. ^ Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
  3. ^ Adventuress: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases. Icon Group International, Inc. 2008. p. 371.
  4. ^ Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen claimed to have discovered the continent three days earlier
  5. ^ Spanish: el padre de la Armada Argentina. Used mainly in Argentina but also in other countries like the United Kingdom, see e.g. this BBC report. URL accessed on October 15, 2006.
  6. ^ Spanish: Guillermo Brown or Almirante Brown, see e.g. his biography at Planeta Sedna. URL accessed on October 15, 2006.
  7. ^ Irish: Béal Easa, see report at County Mayo's official website. URL accessed on October 15, 2006.
  8. ^ Irish: Contae Mhaigh Eo, according to its official website. URL accessed on October 15, 2006.
  9. ^ Coogan p 325
  10. ^ Coogan p 325
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