{"id":151,"date":"2007-10-01T16:57:46","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T06:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=151"},"modified":"2007-10-01T16:57:46","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T06:57:46","slug":"cobh-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/britain-ireland\/cobh-ireland","title":{"rendered":"Cobh &#8211; Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>DAY 13 &#8211; When we called into Cobh (pronounced Cove), I had no idea of this town&#8217;s connection to the ill-fated Titanic.\u00a0 On the harbour front, is this bright yellow building where you&#8217;ll find the Titanic Bar.\u00a0 Two rooms of the splendid Titanic have been <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/17502-2\/DSC_0630.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Titanic Bar - Cobh\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Titanic Bar - Cobh\" \/>recreated in this bar and restaurant.\u00a0 Cobh was\u00a0the last port of call for the Titanic before its doomed Atlantic crossing on April 14, 1912.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/17507-2\/DSC_0634.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Cobh\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Cobh\" \/>Cobh was one of the main ports from where Irish emigrants left for the USA and elsewhere.\u00a0 Between 1848 and 1950 almost 6.5 million people emigrated, with 2.5 million of these leaving from Cobh.\u00a0 Cobh commands one of the world&#8217;s largest natural harbors, hence its prominence as a naval base in the 18th century.\u00a0 It was also a port of call for luxury transatlantic liners in the 1950&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/17539-2\/DSC_0657.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Memorial to victims of Lusitania\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Memorial to victims of Lusitania\" \/>After a visit by Queen Victoria in 1849, Cobh was renamed Queenstown.\u00a0 Colorful fishing boats add color to the waterfront.\u00a0 Cobh is situated on Great Island, one of the three large islands in Cork harbour, Little Island and Fota are the others.\u00a0 The three islands are now all joined by roads and bridges.\u00a0 The harbour is one of the largest and safest anywhere.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" width=\"85\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/17543-2\/DSC_0659.jpg?resize=85%2C110\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Statues of Annie Moore and her brothers\" height=\"110\" style=\"width: 85px; height: 110px\" title=\"Statues of Annie Moore and her brothers\" \/>On the quayside there&#8217;s a memorial to the victims of the Lusitania, many of whom are buried in the old church cemetery.\u00a0 The Lusitania was sunk off Kinsale in 1915 by a German submarine, an action which was responsible for bringing the U.S. into the Great War.<\/p>\n<p>Statues of Annie Moore and her two brothers stand outside the Cobh Heritage Centre.\u00a0 Annie Moore was the first emigrant to be processed on Ellis Island in 1892.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAY 13 &#8211; When we called into Cobh (pronounced Cove), I had no idea of this town&#8217;s connection to the ill-fated Titanic.\u00a0 On the harbour front, is this bright yellow building where you&#8217;ll find the Titanic Bar.\u00a0 Two rooms of the splendid Titanic have been recreated in this bar and restaurant.\u00a0 Cobh was\u00a0the last port [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain-ireland","category-ireland"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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