Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Nóra Bheag"
Photos of the sailing ship:
Please click into a photo to see it in higher resolution.
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Fêtes Maritimes Brest 2024,
07/2024
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Fêtes Maritimes Brest 2024,
07/2024
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Fêtes Maritimes Brest 2024,
07/2024
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Fêtes Maritimes Brest 2024,
07/2024
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Fêtes Maritimes Brest 2024,
07/2024
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Nóra Bheag |
| Registered port: | Claddagh Quay, Galway |
| Nation: | IR |
| Type of ship: | Galway Hooker |
| Year built: | 1916 |
| Yard: | Sean O Donnell, Galway City, IR |
| Length: | 7.00 m |
| Breadth: | 2.00 m |
| Draught: | 1.00 m |
| Ship's hull: | Holz / Wood |
| Engine: | keine / none |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 17 Mar 2025
- built in 1916 by Sean O'Donnell at Long Walk, Galway City.
- owned by Patrick Madden of Feenish Island, Carna, IR and used for trading as well as for fishing.
- taken over by Cóilín Hernon in the late 1980s, restoration in his garden in Renmore, IR in 1988, named "Nóra Bheag" after the mother of the owner, fitted with a gaff rig.
- sailed out of Claddagh / Port of Galway every season since 1988 by the Hernon family.
- 2012 shipped to Abu Dhabi in a temperature-controlled container to take part in a 'Cultural Exchange' with the Emirates as part of the Volvo Ocean Race stopover there.
- joined the Galway Hooker Sailing Club in April 2019.
- participated in the 2024 Brest Maritime Festival.