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Remains of Sligo's forgotten Famine ship emerge from Canada's icy waters
Hull of the Famine ship Carrick of Whitehaven wrecked at Cap de Rosier and beached at Blanc Sablon. Credit: Photo: courtesy of Brian Burke
More photos:Wednesday May 13 2009
On a freezing April night in 1847, a ship carrying Famine emigrants from Sligo to Canada ran aground off the coast of Quebec, killing 119 of the 187 passengers onboard, most of them emigrants from Lord Palmerston's estate.
