Coffin ship

[1] Coffin ships carrying emigrants, crowded and disease-ridden, with poor access to food and water, resulted in the deaths of many people as they crossed the Atlantic, and led to the 1847 North American typhus epidemic at quarantine stations in Canada.

Within a few years, regulations were in force to determine the maximum number of passengers that a ship could carry, and to ensure that sufficient food and water be provided for the voyage.

[8] The National Famine Monument at the base of Croagh Patrick in Murrisk, County Mayo, Ireland depicts a coffin ship with skeletons and bones as rigging.

In fact, the term "coffin ship" was popularized in the early 1870s by English Member of Parliament Samuel Plimsoll as part of his campaign for sailors' rights.

[citation needed] Flogging Molly, an Irish-American celtic punk band, uses the term "coffin ship" in their song "You Won't Make a Fool Out of Me" from their album Float.

The quote is as follows: But green is the heart of your greed That much I can tell you may think you're the captain of me But I'm your coffin ship from hell Frank Herbert's novel The White Plague, about a worldwide plague-like virus that only killed women, featured modern coffin ships which carried Irish people back home to their deaths, as demanded by the novel's antagonist who had released the virus.

The BibleCode Sundays song "Mayo Moon"[15] describes a man preparing to leave for New York during the Great Famine of Ireland.