Over one thousand exhibits go on display at the new maritime museum in Arklow, County Wicklow.
A museum dedicated to Arklow's connection to the sea was officially opened at the old technical school by Minister for Education Richard Burke Burke. It offers a comprehensive insight into the seafaring tradition at Arklow. Two 150 year old bottles of wine and champagne are among the exhibits on show. The bottles were recovered from the wreckage of the coffin ship Pomona, which went down on the Blackwater Bank off the Irish coast on 28 April 1859.
The current location of the museum is temporary and the museum committee has been promised a more permanent exhibition space in a new library that is planned for Arklow.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 18 February 1976. The reporter is Dermot Mullane.
