The Moresby shipwreck, which occurred off the coast of Dungarvan in 1895, is to be commemorated with an exhibition in the town's museum and the restoration of the 19th-century buoy which marked the location of the wreck.

Report shows Dungarvan Bay, County Waterford.

Restored buoy which was used to mark the hidden wreck of the Moresby.

Dungarvan Bay.

Photograph of the Moresby and newspaper report of her manifest.

Painting of the wreck of the Moresby during a gale.

Ballinacourty Lighthouse and lighthouse-keeper's log recording the event.

Painting showing Ballinacourty lifeboat on the way to the Moresby.

Old photograph of the overturned ship.

Ballinacourty Lighthouse.

Another painting showing the volunteer lifeboat crew rescuing a woman from the Moresby.

Photographs of the captain, his wife and daughter, and the first mate who all lost their lives.

Certificate of valour presented to volunteer crew members.

Interview with Richard Power, member of commemoration committee, on the controversy around the refusal of the lifeboat crew to return a second time to aid of the Moresby.

Dungarvan Courthouse.

Interview with Richard Power on the courtcase following the disaster.

St. Mary's Church where funeral of the twenty who perished took place, and headstone marking mass grave of victims of the shipwreck.

Dungarvan seafront.

Interview with Dr Jim Stacey, commemoration committee member, who says that the wreck is part of Dungarvan's history and should be commemorated.

The reporter is Michael Ryan.

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