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Captain Tom McCarthy

Jeanie Sets Sail for New World

By John Kernaghan, Contributor
April / May 2003

April 1, 2003 by Leave a Comment

After many false starts, the Jeanie Johnston famine ship replica is on its way to the United States. If there is a symbol of the trials and tribulations of getting the Irish replica famine ship Jeanie Johnston to sea on its homage to history, Tom Kindre is the poster boy. When Tom McCarthy, the captain of the ship, quizzed him on crewing across the Atlantic, the member of the … [Read more...] about Jeanie Sets Sail for New World

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