these Flower class corvettes purchased from the British Admiralty by the Irish government in 1946, and renamed Macha. In September, 1948, she carried W.B. Yeat's body back from Nice to Galway for re-burial at Drumcliffe, Sligo. Withdrawn from service December 1968 and broken up at Passage West, November 1970. (2 models-O. Hawes/E. Doyle) 35. Motor torpedo boat, c. 1939. The Irish government purchased 6 motor torpedo boats (M.T.B.'s) from Thornycrofts ofSouthampton in the period 1939-41 and used them in the Marine and Coastwatching Service 1940-43. All six were disposed of between 1948 and 1950 - for conversion into houseboats. (E. Doyle) 36. LE Eithne P31 Class Last vessel built at Verolme, 1984, for the Irish Naval Service (Department of Defence) 37. R.N.L.B. A.M.T. (Howth). An example of one of the lifeboats stationed around our coascs. In County Cork, lifeboats are stationed at Youghal, Ballycocton, Courtmacsherry and Baltimore, of which Courtmacsherry's is the oldest established (from 1825). This essential service to mariners in trouble is maintained entirely by voluntary subscription and volunteer crews. (Maritime Institute)
42. British Queen Pioneer steam liner of the British and American Steam Navigation Company, for which Cork's Sirius deputised, on the fast steam crossing of the Atlantic, just beating Brunel's Great Western. Queen, cap tained by Lt. R. Roberts of Cork, made her first trans-Atlantic run inJuly 1839 and seems to have performed very well, even in the worst ofweather. (R. Roberts) 43. President, sister ship to British Queen did not do so well. Captain Roberts was transferred to her, co cry and improve her reputation; they disappeared without trace when returning from New York in March 1841. (R. Roberts) 44. Nimrod. Cork's first iron cross-Channel steamer, built Liverpool 1843. Foundered with loss of45 lives near St. David's Head, 27 February 1860 (C.H.C.) 45. Ibis. Cross-channel steamer of the Cork and St. George Steam Packet Company, built in Cork in 1860, the biggest iron steamer to be constructed thereto date, 262 feetlongwith twinscrewsandcapableofsailingfromCork to Plymouth in 20 hours (C.H.C.) 46. 'Wreck of the Ibis' (Hartnell). In December 1865, the Ibis experienced engine failure just as she was about to round Power Head. In spite ofefforts by rugs and other ships to save her, she was wrecked offBallycroneen, with the lossof I7 lives. 0- O'Mahony) 47. Ajax. Schooner rigged paddle steamer with figure head of Ajax; built Liverpool 1846 for the Cork and St. George Steam Packet Company and in tended for the Belfast-Liverpool route. Lost November 1854 on the Mewstone rockoffPlymoth. (C.H.C.) 48. 'Kinsale Hookers and Schooner'. Painting showing what the K.insale hookers looked like. (Eugene Gillan) 49. Counmacsherry schooners, c. 1850: the Mary Ann and the Harry Herbert. Smallsailingshipsofthis type traded up anddownthe Irish coasts andoften much farther afield. (W. Cork Regional Museum) 50. Prins William de Gross. Hamburg-America line (N. Robercs) 51. White Star liner. Painting by M. Keating of Currabinny ( + 1890) and typical ofliners visiting Cobh at this period (W.B. McCarthy) 5 2. Rangitata. NewZealandSteam ShipCompany. AdvertisingposterofMessrs ScottsofCork (0. Hawes) 5 3. SSCity ofCork. Painting ofthis little freighter which carried supplies to the anti-Franco forces during the Spanish Civil War (Eugene Gillan) 54. Rescue ofsurvivors from theGerman destroyer, T. 26, by the IrishKerlogue in the Bay of Biscay 1943. Kerlogue built in Holland 1938 for the Wexford Steamship Company was involved in several wartime rescues. Attached from the air in 1943 but survived. Sold to Norway 1957 and wrecked at Tromso, 1960. (0. Hawes)
PAINTINGS AND OTHER PICTURES
38. A painting by the marine painter Monamy and used on the commemorative Irish postage stamps for the 250 anniversary of the founding of the Cork Yacht Club, shows the original type of yacht raced at Cork in 1720. (R.C.Y.C.) 39. ·Returningfrom Throwing the Dart'. Water colour copy ofthe painting by John Fitzgerald, 'the bard ofthe Lee'. Each year, Cork'sLordMayor threw a dart into the sea at the limits of the city's jurisdiction, a custom recently revived. (Cal Hyland) 40. Captain Richard Roberts, R.N. (1803-1841). Born 'Ardmore', Passage West; promoted Lieutenant in the Navy for his part in the capture ofa slave ship, ElAlmirante; captain of Sirius on the fuse steam passage trans-Atlantic to New York; then of British Queen, and later, her sister ship, President, on which he was lost at sea with all on board, March 1841. (R. Robercs) 41. Sirius. Painting (C.H.C.) Engraving (R. Roberts). See notes on model 14 for details ofthis ship which made the first steam passage to New York.
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