A Mystery click on any picture to enlarge it for another account of this story, see here (click). This story will be on TG4 Player until 16 November 2014. Inis Oir is the smallest of the Aran Islands, measuring about two miles by three miles. From a maritime history perspective, it is best known for the wreck of…
This article was first published in “an tAtlantach”. Reissued here with the kind permission of the author and an tAtlantach Author: Dr James Patrick Keating At 03:40am on 15 August 1949 Valentia Radio received a report from the British trawler Stalberg which had been fishing off the Aran Islands in the West of Ireland; “Airplane down in Galway…
A tale of Shipwreck & Lost Treasure The Banks Many will be aware, and unfortunately for some, will remember only too well how Banks can ‘fail’. The term is of course not an honest assessment of events when due governance and propriety are recklessly abandoned in favour of greed. Terms like ‘maximising profit’ or ‘sweating…
M.V. Munster The first Irish ship to be sunk in World War Two was the passenger ship Munster, which fell victim to a mine in Liverpool Bay on 7th February 1940. Built at Belfast in 1938 for the British and Irish Steam Packet Company she ran on a nightly service between Dublin and Liverpool until the…
Steam Trawler Leukos The Leukos was fishing in the company of British trawlers and she may have positioned herself between these fleeing trawlers and the U-boat in the vain belief that her status as a neutral would be respected. Alternatively the Leukos might have attempted to ram the U-38. Alternatively, as the Leukos was on the British registry until 1928,…
ILV Isolda Dunne, P.,12 Sallynoggin Villa, Dun Laoghaire, aged 45. Farrell, W., Seaman; Dun Laoghaire Hayden, J.J., Fireman; Beaufort House, Dun Laoghaire, aged 37. Holland, William, Steward; 7 Sussex Street, Dun Laoghaire, aged 57. Rushby, William, 7 Carrigilea Gardens, Dun Laoghaire, aged 43. Shortt, P.,Fireman, 37 Castle Gardens, Dun Laoghaire, aged 43. Isolda was a lightship tender owned by the…
Clonlara (convoy OG71) Carr, William, Dublin Green, Edward, Dublin Kavanagh, Edward, Dublin Lambe, A., Dublin McGuigan, Peter, Lusk, Co.Dublin McKane, Samuel, Dublin Reynolds, Joseph, Drogheda Robertson, Archie, Limerick Smith, William J., Dublin Spanner, John T., Wexford Spence, Robert S., Dublin and two wounded Convoys and Insurance Initially some Irish ships sailed in convoy, at the insistence of insurance companies. Lloyds of London would insure the…
City of Waterford (convoy OG74) S.S. CITY OF WATERFORD Aplin, Thomas E., Dublin Furlong, George, Wexford Naylor, Samuel, Bray, Co. Wicklow Murphy, P., Dun Laoghaire Kearney, Edward, Dublin were killed as a result of the Walmer Castle being bombed by German Aircraft two days later while still at sea. Convoys and Insurance Initially some Irish ships sailed in convoy, at…
Schooner Cymric Bergin, Philip, Wexford Brennan, James, Wexford Cassedy, Christopher, Athboy, Co. Meath Crosbie, James, Wexford Furlong, Kevin, Wexford Kieran, Bernard, Dundalk McConnell, Cecil,Dublin O’Rourke, William, Wexford Ryan, Michael, Dungarvan Seaver, Peter, Skerries, Co. Dublin Tierney, Michael, Wexford
S.S. St Fintan S.S. St. FINTAN Friitzen Carl, Dublin Hendy, Neil, Isle of Arran, Scotland Howat, James, Paisley, Scotland Jones, Joseph, Dublin Leonard, Matthew, Rush, Co.Dublin O’Beirne, Diarmuid, Dublin O’Brien, William, Dublin O’Donnell, M., Ringsend, Dublink Plunkett, B., Dublin