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This is the Jeannie Johnson, a famine ship replica that now moors in Dublin. It looks pretty on a frosty Sunday morning, but in its day, the original carried over 2500 people to America to escape the potato famine here. Conditions on board were relatively good - it was the only famine ship that didn't lose a single passenger. On some ships the chances of surviving the voyage were only slightly better than staying at home. The ship in now a museum, showing how life was during the famine, and how people travelled back then. I must take the tour when it opens in the spring.