Engineering:SS Lady Wicklow
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_and_Comdt._McCreagh_or_McCrea_(21840621989).jpg) Free State officers disembarking from Lady Wicklow at Passage West in 1922
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| History | |
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| Owner: | City of Dublin Steam Packet Company (1890–1924), then British and Irish Steam Packet Company |
| Builder: | Blackwood & Gordon, Port Glasgow |
| Yard number: | 230 |
| Launched: | 28 March 1895 |
| Identification: | Official number: 104963 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 21 August 1948 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Steamship |
| Tonnage: | 1,207 GRT, 470 NRT |
| Length: | 262 ft (80 m) |
| Beam: | 34 ft (10 m) |
SS Lady Wicklow was a steam-powered ferry built in 1895 in Port Glasgow for the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. She was 262 feet long and had a beam of 34 feet. She was scrapped in 1948.[1]
During Irish Free State offensive of the Irish Civil War in July and August 1922 the Irish Free State used her as a troopship,[2] firstly to transport 450 officers and men to Fenit, the port of Tralee[3] and then with TSS Arvonia to take troops from Dublin to Cork.[2]
Sources
- ↑ "Wicklow". http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=2476.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 McIvor, Aidan (1994). A History of the Irish Naval Service. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. pp. 44–48. ISBN 0-7165-2523-2.
- ↑ Harrington, Niall (1992). Kerry Landing. Dublin: Anvil Books. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-947962-70-8.
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