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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.
 * Richard Brydges Beechey (1808–95),


 * Hugh Talbot Burgoyne (1833-1870) RN VC
 * Michael Byrne (sailor) : able seaman with Captain Bligh on the Bounty.

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 * Peter Campbell (naval officer) (1780-1832) - Urugayan Navy
 * James Leander Cathcart : enslaved in Algiers.
 * Hugh Coveney - 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
 * John de Courcy Ireland - Research officer of the Maritime Institute of Ireland
 * Edward England (Edward Seegar) - pirate
 * Edward Fegen HMS Jervis Bay
 * Robert Forde polar explorer - stub
 * Damian Foxall : won the 2007/2008 Barcelona World Race

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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
 * John Philip Holland - submarine inventor

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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


 * John Griffith (engineer)

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 * Walter Kennedy (pirate) (?-1721):pirate
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 * Patrick Keohane - polar explorer
 * Lieutenant Commander John Kerans - The Yangtse River Incident
 * John King (sailor) (1865–1938) Ballinrobe : United States Navy Medal of Honor twice.
 * Germyn Lynch (1441-1483) merchant sea captain
 * Patricio Lynch - Rear Admiral - Chilean navy
 * James Joseph Magennis VC
 * 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
 * Conor O'Brien (1880-1952) circumnavigation in the Saoirse
 * Jorge O'Brien - Captain of the Chilean Navy during the Chilean War of Independence
 * William Ahern (Medal of Honor recipient) aka William O'Hearn (1861-?) United States Navy
 * Gráinne Ní Mháille (Grace O'Malley) - Pirate Queen
 * 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
 * John Roach - Shipbuilder -
 * Captain Richard Roberts (1803-41) of SS Sirius (1837)
 * Tim Severin lives in Timoleague, County Cork
 * Ernest Shackleton - polar explorer
 * Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker : captain of the Australian Submarine HMAS AE2.
 * John Sullivan (VC) RN VC
 * 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.
 * Joseph Wheeler (shipbuilder) - shipbuilder
 * John Richardson Wigham - lighthouse Engineer
 * John Shaw (navy) (1773-1823) United States Navy
 * 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

Grandparent rule

 * Molly Brown the Unsinkable Molly Brown was Born Molly Tobin (Irish born father)
 * Joseph Grégoire Cazy aka O'Casey:minister of the navy
 * 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".
 * 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.
 * Ange René Armand, baron de Mackau aka McCoy :(1788-1855) :French naval officer, vice-admiral, minister of the navy :Paris, Irish family
 * 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.
 * 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