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Irish Mariners
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 * Ange René Armand, baron de Mackau aka McCoy :(1788-1855) :French naval officer, vice-admiral, minister of the navy :Paris, Irish family

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Baugh (Bagh, Bough, Boghe), William (c.1587–1619?), pirate

William Beatty (surgeon) (1773–1842), naval surgeon, was born in Derry,

Bingham | Edward Bingham Bingham, Edward Barry Stewart (1881–1939), rear-admiral, RN, was born 26 July 1881 in Bangor Castle, Co. Down

Henry Blackwood 1770–1832), vice admiral, was born 28 December 1770 at Ballyleidy, Upper Clandeboye Co Down

Browning, Michael (d. 1689), captain of the Mountjoy, whose Christian name occurs in various forms, including Micah, Micaiah, Micaill, and Mihal, is said to have been a native of Derry city,

Thomas Button (died April, 1634) officer of the Royal Navy and explorer engagement at Kinsale in 1601, where he commanded the pinnace Moone. In 1612–13 he led an expedition in search of the north-west passage, explored the west coast of Hudson's Bay and gave his name to Button Bay. He was appointed admiral of the king's ships on the coasts of Ireland, probably in 1614, and apparently for life. His Irish base was Kinsale, where he held command of the fort at Castle Park from 1616, who in 1612–1613 commanded an expedition that unsuccessfully attempted to locate explorer Henry Hudson and to navigate the Northwest Passage

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 * Molly Brown the Unsinkable Molly Brown was Born Molly Tobin (Irish born father)
 * Hugh Talbot Burgoyne (1833-1870) RN VC
 * Michael Byrne (sailor) : able seaman with Captain Bligh on the Bounty.

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 * Cameron, Robert Rupert Gibson (1903–79), naval architect, was born 24 October 1903 at Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim,


 * Joseph Grégoire Cazy aka O'Casey:minister of the navy - grandparent


 * Cammock (Camocke, Camock), George (c.1666–1722), sailor and Jacobite, was born in Co. Down, He served as first lieutenant of the Lion (1690) and the Loyal Merchant (1693) and was captain of the Owner's Goodwill (a fireship) and the Intelligence (1695–7), seeing action at the battles of Beachy Head and Barfleur and burning French ships at La Hogue. He captained the Bonettla off Cape Clear before serving with great distinction as captain of the Speedwell (1702) and Monck (1712–14), capturing many French privateers off the Irish coast


 * Peter Campbell (1780-1832) - Urugayan Navy
 * James Leander Cathcart : enslaved in Algiers.


 * Colgan, Nathaniel (1851–1919), botanist, marine biologist, and traveller, was born 28 May 1851 in Dublin. In 1873 he was involved in the production of a magazine, Varieties, to which he contributed a number of papers and which he later edited. He also contributed to the Irish Monthly, Tinsley's Magazine and Hibernia, His 1896 monograph on the history of the shamrock in Ireland is still the definitive account,


 * Coppin, William (1805–95), sailor, shipbuilder, and inventor, was born 9 October 1805 in Kinsale, Co. Cork;


 * Coppin, Louisa (1845–1849) prophesied the as-yet-undiscovered location of Sir John Franklin's 1845 polar expedition to chart the North-west Passage.


 * Richard William Coppinger see Coppinger, Richard William (1847–1910), naval surgeon, naturalist, and explorer, was born 11 October 1847 in Dublin.  surgeon aboard HMS Discovery


 * Cormac Ua Liatháin in Durrow - prilgrim monk. mentioned several times by Adomnán (qv) in his ‘Vita Columbae’. He appears in the genealogies as ‘priest’, son of Dímma, grandson of Commán, and belonging to the tribe of Uí Liatháin,


 * Francis Crozier (1796–1848), Royal Navy captain and polar explorer,


 * Hugh Coveney - former Minister for the Marine and noted yachtsman.
 * Roger Anthony Craig - Laser dinghy competitor
 * Harold Cudmore - yacht racing skipper
 * Tom Crean (explorer) File:Featured article star.svg
 * Andrew Cunningham First Sea Lord

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 * John de Courcy Ireland - Research officer of the Maritime Institute of Ireland
 * John de Robeck - admiral in the British Royal Navy who commanded the Allied naval force in the Dardanelles during World War I. De Robeck was born in Naas, County Kildare, Ireland


 * Dombrain, Sir James (1793–1871), comptroller general of the Irish coastguard, and railway pioneer involved in waterford & wexford railway.

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 * Edward England (Edward Seegar) - pirate

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 * Farran, George Philip (1876–1949), marine taxonomist and fisheries scientist, was born 21 November 1876 at Knocklyon House, Templeogue, Co. Dublin
 * Edward Fegen HMS Jervis Bay


 * Richard FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Gowran, Royal Navy officer and MP, was the son or grandson of Andrew Fitzpatrick of Castle Fleming, Queen's Co. (Laois) MP for Harristown, Co. Kildare (1703–13) and Queen's Co. (1713–14) he was created Baron Gowran of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny, In September 1715 he was sworn of the privy council, taking his seat in the Irish house of lords on 12 November,


 * George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard diplomat, and admiral


 * Robert Forde polar explorer - stub
 * Damian Foxall : won the 2007/2008 Barcelona World Race

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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.
 * Red Legs Greaves


 * Green, William Spotswood (1847–1919), marine scientist, was born 10 September 1847 in Youghal, Co. Cork,


 * John Griffith (engineer)

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 * George Halpin : founding father of the Irish lighthouse service
 * Robert Halpin : Master of the SS Great Eastern
 * David Harrel (1841-1939) Merchant navy, RIC, Under-Secretary for Ireland
 * Bartholomew Hayden : Brazil Navy
 * Patrick Hayes (mariner) (1770-1856) director of the Marine Insurance Company, director of the Captains' Society; Harbor Master for the Port of Philadelphia


 * Michael Healy - Captain of the US Revenue Cutter Bear, defender of Alaska's native Americans, inspiration for Jack London's "The Sea-Wolf," prominent figure in James Michener's "Alaska". - grandparent


 * John Philip Holland - submarine inventor


 * William Hobson rn - first Governor of New Zealand - born in Waterford,


 * Robert Holmes sea captain - Robert Homes (Holmes) (1694–a.1743) was born 23 July 1694 in Stragullin, Co. Tyrone - influenced the decision of hundreds or even thousands of Ulster-Scots to leave Ireland for new opportunities in America.

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Michael Joyce (MP) sailor & mp

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 * Walter Kennedy (pirate) (?-1721):pirate
 * File:Captain_Dulaien_Flag.svg‎


 * Patrick Keohane - polar explorer


 * Henry Kellett (1806–75) vice-admiral (RN) and polar explorer, was born 2 November 1806 at Clonacody, Co. Tipperary,


 * Lieutenant Commander John Kerans - The Yangtse River Incident
 * John King (sailor) (1865–1938) Ballinrobe : United States Navy Medal of Honor twice.

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 * Germyn Lynch (1441-1483) merchant sea captain
 * Patricio Lynch - Rear Admiral - Chilean navy

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 * James Joseph Magennis VC


 * Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914) - US naval officer and author whose work, including "The Influence of Seapower Upon History, 1660-1783]]," inspired the creation of the modern United States Navy. (his father Dennis Hart Mahan may have been born in Ireland. - grandparent


 * Richard Charles Mayne (1835 – 1892): RN Admiral and explorer
 * Kevin McClory (1926-2006) screenwriter, producer, and director. served in the British Merchant Navy in the Second World War. His ship was torpedoed on 21 February 1943, and he spent 14 days in a lifeboat
 * Robert McClure aka Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure (or M'Clure):(1807–1873): he was the first to transit the Northwest Passage, and the first to circumnavigate the Americas.: He was born at Wexford :File:Robert McClure.jpg
 * Charles McGuinness IRA, adventurer and sailor.
 * Thomas Murphy (VC) VC for sea rescue

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 * Conor O'Brien (1880-1952) circumnavigation in the Saoirse
 * Jorge O'Brien - Captain of the Chilean Navy during the Chilean War of Independence


 * Jeremiah O’Brien (1744–1818) : was in command of Unity when she captured HMS Margaretta in the Battle of Machias, the first naval battle of the American Revolutionary War.


 * William Ahern (Medal of Honor recipient) aka William O'Hearn (1861-?) United States Navy
 * Gráinne Ní Mháille (Grace O'Malley) - Pirate Queen

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 * Oliver Hazard Perry(1785–1819): US Navy in the War of 1812 against United Kingdom, and earned the title "Hero of Lake Erie" for leading American forces in a decisive naval victory at the Battle of Lake Erie: Irish mother, Sarah Wallace Alexander. :File:Operry.jpg
 * Matthew C. Perry (1794 – 1858) was the Commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854 : Irish mother, Sarah Wallace Alexander. : File:Perry1852LibraryOfCongress.jpg


 * William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie:(1847–1924):shipbuilder:Born in Quebec, Canada, the son of Irish parents, he was taken back to Ireland when he was two years old and spent his childhood at Conlig, County Down:File:438825 aa17f8df.jpg

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 * John Roach - Shipbuilder -
 * Captain Richard Roberts (1803-41) of SS Sirius (1837)

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 * Tim Severin lives in Timoleague, County Cork
 * Ernest Shackleton - polar explorer


 * John Shaw (navy) (1773-1823) United States Navy


 * Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker : captain of the Australian Submarine HMAS AE2.
 * John Sullivan (VC) RN VC

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 * François Thurot real name O'Farrell, French naval captain who terrorised British shipping during the Seven Years' War.
 * Derek Turner (journalist) (1964-) :served in the Irish Navy : a freelance journalist.

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 * Joseph Wheeler (shipbuilder) - shipbuilder
 * John Richardson Wigham - lighthouse Engineer


 * David Wilkins (sailor) : silver 1980 Moscow Olympics in the Flying Dutchman class
 * James Wilkinson (sailor) : silver 1980 Moscow Olympics in the Flying Dutchman class
 * Thomas Wright (1799-1868) - founder of the Ecuadorian naval school