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The museum is housed in the former Mariners Church built in 1837, there are some five hundred exhibits on display relating to the maritime history of Ireland. There are many models including a Boyne coracle the S. S. Helga used by the Royal Navy to shell rebel positions during the 1916 rising, and the S S Great Eastern designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunell in 1859 and used to lay the first Atlantic telephone cable in the 1860's.
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