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
S.S. Innisfallen MII – M.V. INNISFALLEN Doyle, W., Dublin Geary, Daniel, Kinsale Porter, James, Dublin Rickard, Joseph., Howth and three wounded
S.S. IRISH OAK The SS Irish Oak sailing under a neutral flag was sunk in mid-Atlantic by a (then) unidentified submarine on 15 May 1943. There were allegations that she warned a convoy of the presence of a U-boat and complaints that she had not. This sinking became an issue in the general election of…
S.S. KERRY HEAD On 1 August 1940, Kerry Head was four miles ESE of the Old Head of Kinsale with a cargo of coal and some tinplate from Swansea bound for Limerick. She was attacked by a German bomber. Fortunately there was no structural damage, but there was considerable other damage. Her side was crushed inward by…