Ĭoffin 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.

No one ever died on the Jeanie JohnsonĪ coffin ship ( Irish: long cónra) is a popular (but not entirely accurate) idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders displaced by the Highland Clearances.

Replica of the 'good ship' Jeanie Johnston, which sailed during the Great Hunger when coffin ships were common.

For other uses, see Coffin ship (disambiguation).