MV Leinster. Built at Verolme dockyard 1969 MS City of Cork Owned by Palgrave Murphy and Hamburg-Bremin-Dublin route from 1965 co 7 1
(Cobh Museum) worked the Cork (Clyde Shipping)
22. 23.
24. Irish Rose Second of 3 ships of this name, 1923 cons built for Irish Shipping by Grays of Hartlepool. Sold in 1954 and renamed Leo, becoming, with subsequent changes ofowners, Colon, Ocean Explorer, Fortune, and Senor de/ Mar went aground on the Mexican coast 1971 and scrapped at Veracrux 1973 (Marcime Institute) 25. Breeda]. Coasting oil tanker built by Charles Hill & Sons, Bristol 1952 (Cobh Museum) 26. MV Kate. Owned and traded by Marine Transport Services 1957-64 (Marine T.S.) 27. MV Marian. Designed and built by Marine Transport in 1958 and still used as a passengerferry. (Marine T. S.) 28. MV Co,pach. An ex-Clyde puffer, operated in Cork Harbour from 1956-75 by Marine Transport Services. 'Puffers', named from the peculiar puffing aspirations of their original steam engines, were che small cargo ships ofthe West Highlands and Islands, capable, failing any pier suitable, co be run ashore, off-loaded at low tide and sail away when it rose again. (MarineT.S.) 29. An example ofa fishing trawler as used on the Irish coast O. McCarthy) 30. MV John Adams Cock Harbour Forrs Ferry Service - single screw motor vessel builrThame, Yorks, 1934 (Cobh Museum) 31. Inman Liner, c. 1870-80. A model made at that time probably by a ship's officer C,1 1 �rP..J,.,,1. (jii• - 1'\�1) (N. Roberts) 32. RMS Queen Mary. Launched on the Clyde September 1934 and had a long and distinguished career on the Atlantic as Cunard's flag ship and during the second world war as a troop carrier. Sold in 1967 for fl · 5 million and now berthed at Long Beach, U.S.A. where she is used as a tourist museum and hotel. (N. Roberts) 33. Helga. Built Dublin 1908 asfisherypatrol vessel, Helga II for Department of Agriculture Technical Institute. 323 cons. Taken over by Admiralty 1915 and renamed HMS Helga and was used co shell locations in Dublin at Easter 1916. Returned co the FisheriesBoard in 1919 and handed over co the Irish Free State in 1923, when she was renamed Muirchu and used as fishery cruiser. Transferred to Dept ofDefence 1939 and commissioned as a patrol vessel, 1940. Sold, for scrapping, in 1947, she sank off the Saltee islands, whilst under cow for Dublin. (Maritime Institute) 34. LE Macha Built by Browns ofClydebank, 1941, as part ofthe British Navy's wartime construction programme and named HMS Bocage. One ofthree of
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Windjammers at Cork in the 1920s
(Councs� Cork Examiner)
Cork City and County Archives SM994
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