Irish Naval Service Se

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Irish Naval ServiceSeírbhis Chablaigh na h
Éireann

• 60 Years of the other Grey Funnel Line
• 1946 - 2006

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Irelands Naval Heritage

• Many Irishmen served in navies around the world
  and took part in many nautical adventures

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Commodore John Barry

• 1745 to 1803
• Father of the U.S. Navy

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Admiral William Brown
1777 1857 Founded Argentine Navy November 2005
it was announced that a Dublin Street was to be
named in his honour. Folk song Admiral William
Brown Wolfe Tones - 1982
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Bantry Bay Landings 1796

• Winter of 1796, a formidable French naval force
  sailed from Brest in support of Theobald Wolfe
  Tone and the United Irishmen.
• The aim was to invasion of Ireland and support
  the establishment of an Irish Republic.
• 43 warships carried 15,000 soldiers to the
  Southwest of County Cork.

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Bantry Bay Landings 1796

• Strong winds disrupted the landings. Both General
  Hoche and Admiral Morad de Galles had been lost
  on the way on the Fraternité.
• On 26th December, the French fleet was ordered to
  retreat, much to the dismay of Wolfe Tone.
• The statue to Wolfe Tone in French Naval uniform
  stands in Bantry.
• Nearby is an anchor salvaged from one of the
  French vessels.

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Bantry Bay Landings 1796

• This is an actual longboat which accompanied the
  attempted French Armada Invasion of Ireland in
  1796. It is preserved at the National Maritime
  Museum at Dún Laogahire.
• During 2005 it spent time undergoing restoration
  at the Merseyside Maritime Museum.
• It was landed on Bere Island from the Frigate
  Resloue on December. 24, 1796.
• Despite being over 200 years old, this boat is in
  excellent condition carried the original Blue,
  White and Red paint of the new French Republic.
• This boat is the only vessel to have survived
  from the invasion.

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Irish Sailors at Trafalgar

• Of the 18,000 at Royal Navy officers and men at
  Trafalgar, 4,000 - almost a quarter - were Irish
• Capt. John Conn of Waterford commanded HMS
  Dreadnaught
• Capt Henry Blackwood of Dublin commanded HMS
  Euraylus
• Irish sailors served in the combined
  Franco-Spanish fleet.
• Commodore Henry MacDonell commanded Spanish Navy
  Rayo
• LE Eithne represented the Irish Naval Service at
  the Trafalgar 200 review.

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Other notable personalities

• Admiral Felix ONeil Spain
• Admiral George Forbes founded Austrian Navy
• Admiral O Flanagan Austrian Navy Danube
  Flotilla
• Diego Keating founded Brazilian Navy
• Captain George OBrien founded Chilean Navy
• Commodore Cronin Imperial Russian Navy
• Commander Mellowes Chinese Imperial Navy

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Erins Hope

• 1867 Landing of American Civil War veterans
  landed aboard the brigantine Erins Hope at
  Helbhic Head, County Waterford as part of Fenian
  Rising.
• Memorial unveiled by Cathleen Clarke, widow of
  Easter Rising veteran Tom Clarke in 1955.

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John Holland Father of The Modern Submarine
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First USN Royal Navy Submarines

• USN Holland 1 on trials
• RN Holland 1 launch
• Folk Song John Hollands Fenian Ram Wolfe
  Tones 1993

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Irish in the Royal Navy

• Admiral James Beatty Waterford
• Admiral James Somerville Cork
• Admiral Cunningham Dublin
• Commander Fogarty-Fegan VC Tipperary
• LS James Maginnis VC - Belfast

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Tom Crean Polar Explorer

• He worked with Sir Ernest Shackelton, a County
  Kildare man, on the remarkable voyage of
  Endurance.
• Previous to this,the frozen wastes lured him
  twice, each time with Captain Robert Falcon
  Scott.
• The first of Scott's expeditions, the voyage of
  Discovery, lasted from 1901 to 1904.
• The second, and fatal one, began in 1910 and
  went on for three years.
• On this voyage,Tom Crean was petty officer on
  the ship"Terra Nova" which navigated Ross Sea, Mc
  Murdo sound, Cape Evans and Hut Point.
• Scott and his party reached the Pole on January
  17th 1912, but perished on the return trek

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Gun Running!

• North and South

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Clyde Valley

• This plaque was unveiled by the Prime Minister of
  Northern Ireland on 25th April 1964 to
  commemorate the arrival at Larne Harbour of the
  SS CLYDE VALLEY renamed SS MOUNTJOY on the 24th
  April 1914 with a shipment of arms for the Ulster
  Volunteer Force formed to defend the union of
  Ulster with Great Britain.
• The lamp surmounting this plinth was the leading
  light which guided the vessel to port.

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Erskine Childers The Ben-My-Chree connection
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Asgard

• The original ASGARD designed and built in Norway
  by Colin Archer of Larvick in 1905.
• The name ASGARD is an old Norse word meaning
  "Home of the Gods" 
• In July, 1914 ASGARD with Erskine and Mary
  Childers along with four others, sailed to the
  North Sea to collect a cargo of 900 Mauser rifles
  which had been bought in Hamburg for the Irish
  Volunteers.
• The arms were landed on Howth Pier on 26 July
  1914. The arms were subsequently used by the
  volunteers during the 1916 Easter Rising. 

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Royal Navy in Ireland WWI
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Naval Deployment

• Queenstown Force
• 1 light Cruiser
• 37 destroyers
• 4 torpedo boats
• 11 sloops
• 9 minesweepers
• 1 decoy ship

• Berehaven
• 3 US battleships
• 13 submarines
• North Coast
• 27 destroyers
• 12 sloops
• 1 decoy ship

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Commander in Chief

• Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, Commander in Chief,
  Irish Coast 1915 to 1918.

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Admiralty HQ Queenstown
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Queenstown Naval Base
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Queenstown Naval Base

• Queenstown (Cóbh) Harbour just prior to WWI.
• Cruiser acting as port guard ship.

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Q Ships

• Q-Ships
• Q for Queenstown
• 1914 - 3 ships entered service
• 1915 - 29 ships entered service.9 Q-ships lost.
• 1916 - 41 ships entered service.11 Q-ships lost
• 1917 - 95 ships entered service.23 Q-ships lost.
  6 U-boats destroyed.
• 1918 - 25 ships entered service.1 Q-ship lost
• Total - 193 Q-ships in service.44 Q-ships lost.
  15 U-boats destroyed

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Lusitania May 7, 1915
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Easter Rising 1916
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Easter 1916
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Easter Rising
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Helga

• Built for Fisheries Board and launched 1908.
• Taken into RN Fleet on March 12, 1915
• Three pounder gun upgraded to 12 pounder
• Allocated to new Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire)
  station.
• Transferred to Irish Free State August 7, 1923
• Renamed Murichu

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Sir Roger Casement

• Sir Roger Casement attempted to ship weapons to
  Ireland from Germany during 1916 on board the
  Aud.
• Casement was landed by U19 at Banna Strand on
  April 21, 1916 two days before the Easter Rising.

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RMS Leinster October 10, 1918
Built Lairds Birkenhead 1896
501 - Casualties
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U123 (photo U122)
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War of Independence
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Anglo Irish Treaty

• Article 6
• Until an arrangement has been made between the
  British and Irish Governments where by Ireland
  undertakes her coastal defence, the defence of
  Great Britain and Ireland shall be undertaken by
  HM Forces, but this shall not prevent the
  construction of maintenance by the Government of
  Ireland of such vessels as are necessary for the
  protection of revenue or fisheries.
• Article 7
• The Government of Ireland shall afford HM Forces
  in time of peace, harbours and other facilities
  as indicated or such facilities as may be from
  time to time agreed. In time of war such
  harbour and other facilities as the British
  Government may require.

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The Treaty Ports

• Dockyard Port at Berehaven maintained on care
  and maintenance by Royal Navy
• Queenstown (Cóbh) harbour defences and certain
  buoys retained.
• Belfast Lough and Lough Swilly harbour defences
  to be maintained.
• Oil storage facilities at Haulbowline (Cóbh) and
  Rathmullen (Lough Swilly) to be offered for sale
  to commercial concerns under a guarentee that
  they maintain a certain minimum stock of fuel for
  admiralty requirements.
• Aviation facilities to be maintained in the
  named ports for coastal air defence.

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Irish Civil War Pro Treaty

• General Michael Collins Commander in Chief Free
  State Army

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Irish Civil War Anti-Treaty

• Eamon de Valera Leader Anti-Treaty Group

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Civil War Maritime Events

• SS. Upnor siezed by Cork No 1 Brigade IRA
  boarding from tug Warrior.
• Free State Army landed troops at Westport, Mayo.
• SS Tartar, equipped with light armour and guns
  used as an escort to ferries operating out of
  Sligo engaged in action with IRA. July 1922

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The Cork - Kerry Landings
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Cork Kerry Landings

• The Cork Assault
• LNWR Arvonia
• BI Lady Wicklow
• Departed Dublin August 6th 1922
• Troops landed at Youghal, Passage West and Cork
  City on August 7th.

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Landing From Lady Wicklow at Fenit, Kerry.
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BI Lady Wicklow

• BI Steamer Lady Wicklow departed South Wall
  Dublin on July 31, 1922 with 450 officers and men
  of the Dublin Guards, armoured car and 18-pounder
  field gun bound for Fenit where a successful
  landing was made.
• Ex City of Dublin SPCo Wicklow
• Built Blackwood and Gordon Port Glasgow 1895.
• Scrapped 1948.

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SS Arvonia Loading troops and supplies at Dublin.
Arvonia built by William Denny in 1897 as the
Cambria III. Renamed Arvonia in 1920. Scrapped
1925
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On board SS Arvonia
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The Cork Kerry Landings

• the misery was total and it is an abiding
  memory to me. To step on to a companion way to a
  lower deck, was to slither on vomit into an abyss
  of them having their first taste of what the sea
  has to offer and what it expects in return
• Niall Harrington O.C. Marine Service

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Republican block ships on the River Lee.
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Discharging a Peerless armoured car from
Arvonia at Passage West.
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Cork Kerry Landings

• August 11th, 1922 coaster Margaret and pleasure
  cruiser Mermaid landed troops at Kenmare.
• August 25th, 1922 force landed at Kinsale from a
  flotilla of open boats.

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Civil War Ends

• IRA surrenders to Free State Army on March 23,
  1923.
• May 1923 Coastal and Marine Service established
  to interdict gun runners and provide fisheries
  protection

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Coastal Marine Service

• Controlled by the army
• Three sections.
• Coastal Patrols
• Marine Investigation Department
• Coastal Infantry
• Infantry and Marine Investigations disbanded
  during autumn 1923.

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Coastal Marine Service

• Haulbowline Island Cóbh
• Dún Laoghaire
• Galway
• Killybegs
• Personnel recruited from the Merchant Navy.

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Coastal Marine Service

• SS Dainty deep sea tug / patrol sloop
• patrol vessel Murichu (ex HMS Helga)
• 6 Mersey class armed trawlers
• 6 Canadian Castle class armed trawlers
• 2 drifters Inisherer John S. Somers
• 5 chartered river patrol boats
• 3 80ft motor launches
• 2 steam launches

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Coastal Marine Service

• Dainty 468grt
• Built Chepstow 1918
• Transferred to Irish Free State 1922
• Ex Admiralty Deep-Sea tug
• Sold out of service to French interests

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Coastal Marine Service

• May 4th, 1923 to March 31st, 1924
• The need for national economies led to the
  service being wound up after 10 months and 27
  days.
• Murichu transferred to the Department of
  Agriculture.
• Other vessels transferred to Office of Public
  Works for sale or disposal.

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The British Depart

• The Treaty Ports remained under the control of
  the UK until the signing of the Anglo-Irish Free
  Trade Agreement in 1938 between Neville
  Chamberlain and Eamonn DeValera.

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Treaty Ports Question

• From an Irish point of view, the handover of the
  ports in the lead-up to WWII was felt to be vital
  to consolidate Ireland's neutrality.
• Winston Churchill opposed the surrender of the
  ports and even suggested the invasion of the
  Irish Free State to secure the ports at the
  beginning of WWII.

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The Emergency

• 1939 - 1945

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Marine Coastwatching Service

• Coastwatching Service founded August 29, 1939.
• Marine Service founded September 06 1939.

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Marine Coastwatching Service

• The Marine Service and Coastwatching service
  merged on December 07, 1939.
• Set up to comply with the 1907 Hague Convention
  on neutral powers in a naval war.

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Marine Coastwatching Service

• Control the use of territorial waters and ports
  by belligerent warships.
• Control of the use of territorial waters and
  ports by merchant shipping.
• Minelaying, minesweeping and the notification and
  distruction of mines.
• Protection of the countrys fishing limits.
• Escort duties.
• Protection of navigational aids and sea rescue.

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Marine Coastwatching Service

• Marine service took over the former Royal Naval
  yard and hospital at Haulbowline Island, Cóbh on
  July 07, 1940.
• Lt. Commander James Morris RN appointed
  commanding officer.
• Changed his name to Seamus OMuiris on
  appointment.

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Murichu

• Built Dublin Liffey Dockyard 1908 323grt
• Ex HMY Helga
• Passed to Coastal and Marine Service in 1923
• Fisheries Protection 1924 to 1939
• Armament Twelve Pounder Gun
• Sold to Hammond Lane Scrap Merchants Dublin, sank
  on delivery voyage.

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Fort Rannoch

• Built John Lewis Sons, Aberdeen 1936 - 258grt
• Ordered by Department of Fisheries 1938
• Transferred to Department of Defence 1939
• Armament Twelve Pounder Gun

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Isaalt

• Built Porthmadog, Wales 1909 - 134grt
• Bought by the Marine Service from a private owner
  in Skibbereen in 1940.
• Sold to a private owner in 1945.
• Sank off Wicklow Head December 1947.
• Armament none

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Shark

• Built Grimsby Trawling Company -1891 163grt
• Operated by Palmer Bros. Ringaskiddy as a salvage
  vessel from 1926. Used to salvage material from
  the Celtic.
• Purchased by Marine Service October 1940
• Sold to Halbowline Industries, Cóbh for breaking
  1952.
• Armament none

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M1 M6

• Built by Thornycroft 1940 40grt
• M1 originally built for Estonia
• M2 originally built for Latvia
• Armament 2 torpedoes. Depth Charges. Madsen or
  Hotchkiss M/guns
• All sold out of service to Col. Fitzmaurice
  between 1948 and 1950.

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M1 M6
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Irish Naval Service

• Created by Minister of Defence Oscar Traynor on
  March 15, 1946.

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The First Ships

• Flower Class Corvettes
• Cheap
• Easily maintained.
• Robust
• Intention had been to obtain six.

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The Irish Navy What A Life!
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L.E. Macha 011946 1970

• Launched George Brown, Grenock 1942. - 1020
  tons displacement
• Commissioned Royal Navy as HMS Borage.
• Commissioned into Irish Naval Service November
  15, 1946.
• Sold to Haulbowline Industries for breaking on
  November 02, 1970
• Armament 4 inch gun, 2 pounder gun 2 single
  20mm AA guns, hedgehog mortar, four depth charge
  throwers, two depth charge racks.

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L.E. Macha1946 1970

• Asdic crew in action

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L.E. Maeve 021946 1972

• Launched H.J. Inglis, Glasgow 1941. - 1020 tons
  displacement
• Commissioned Royal Navy as HMS Oxlip.
• Commissioned into Irish Naval Service December
  20, 1946 at Devonport.
• Sold to Haulbowline Industries for breaking on
  March 23, 1972
• Armament 4 inch gun, 2 pounder gun 2 single
  20mm AA guns, hedgehog mortar, four depth charge
  throwers, two depth charge racks.

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L.E. Maeve 021946 1972

• Departing Dublin in 1950s
• 4 inch gun

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L.E. Maeve 021946 1972

• Two pounder pom-pom gun.
• Anti-Aircraft gun.

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L.E. Cliona 031946 1970

• Launched George Brown, Grenock 1941. - 1020
  tons displacement
• Commissioned Royal Navy as HMS Bellwort.
• Commissioned into Irish Naval Service February
  03, 1947 at Devonport.
• Sold to Haulbowline Industries for breaking on
  November 04, 1970
• Armament 4 inch gun, 2 pounder gun 2 single
  20mm AA guns, hedgehog mortar, four depth charge
  throwers, two depth charge racks.
• Flag ship equipped with suite of cabins for
  Defence Forces senior officers.

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Haulbowline Base 1950s
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• Haulbowline Naval Base

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Guardroom
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Recruits Drill Instruction
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Recruits under instruction.
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Mechanical Training Bay
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Inspection by Taoiseach Seán Lemass 1954
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Depth charge instruction.
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Pom pom gun training 1954
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Inspection
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The Irish Navy - The Dubliners
Each year they go on manoeuvresTo prepare for
defence they are keenSometimes it's the Lakes of
KillarneyMore often the pond in the GreenThe
canal it could be of assistanceIn defending our
own holy groundBut due to proposed
legislationWe'll have to sail all the way round
The Clíona, the Maeve and the Macha The pride
of the Irish NavyWhen the Captain he blows on
his whistleAll the sailors go home for their tea
We are a seafaring nationDefence of our land
is a rightWe'd fight like the devil all
morningProvided we're home by the night The
Clíona, the Maeve and the Macha The pride of the
Irish NavyWhen the Captain he blows on his
whistleAll the sailors go home for their tea

• The Clíona, the Maeve and the MachaThe pride of
  the Irish NavyWhen the Captain he blows on his
  whistleAll the sailors go home for their tea
  While the army is off in the CongoIn Cyprus or
  some foreign partsOur navy is strained to the
  limitsDeploying its nautical actsOne day from
  the Russian invaderDefending our very odd
  fishWe found it was just the red herringFrom
  the signals we got from the Kish The Clíona,
  the Maeve and the Macha The pride of the Irish
  NavyWhen the Captain he blows on his whistleAll
  the sailors go home for their tea

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Time for A Break!
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The Second Generation Ships
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L.E. Grainne CM101970 1987

• Launched Thornycroft, July 20, 1954. - 360 tons
  displacement
• Commissioned Royal Navy as HMS Oulston.
• Commissioned into Irish Naval Service January
  30, 1971.
• Sold to Spanish interests for breaking - 1987
• Armament 40mm Bofors Gun 20mm Oerlikon.

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L.E. Banba CM111971 1984

• Launched Thornycroft, March 24, 1954. - 360
  tons displacement
• Commissioned Royal Navy as HMS Alverton.
• Commissioned into Irish Naval Service February
  23, 1971 at Gibraltar
• Sold to Spanish interests for breaking - 1984
• Armament 40mm Bofors Gun 20mm Oerlikon.

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L.E. Fola CM121970 1987

• Launched Thornycroft, June 21, 1955. - 360 tons
  displacement
• Commissioned Royal Navy as HMS Blaxton.
• Commissioned into Irish Naval Service February
  23, 1971 at Gibraltar
• Sold to Spanish interests for breaking - 1987
• Armament 40mm Bofors Gun 20mm Oerlikon.

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The Fleet Expands
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LE Dierdre P201972 - 2001

• Launched Verolme Cork Dockyard, January 21,
  1972. - 972 tons displacement
• Commissioned into Irish Naval Service June 19,
  1972
• Armament 40mm Bofors Gun 120 rounds/minute 2 x
  12.7mm heavy machine guns.
• Sold at auction for IR190,000 to Seastream
  International Limited, Cornwall 2001
• Rebuilt as a private charter yacht operating on
  the Mediterranean.

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LE Setanta A15

• Launched Liffey Dockyard, Dublin 1953. - 1173
  tons dis.
• Delivered to Commissioners of Irish Lights as
  tender ISOLDA
• Bought by Irish Naval Service in 1976 as training
  and supply ship
• Sold to Haulbowline Industries, Cóbh for breaking
  1984.
• Armament 2 x 20mm Oerlikon.

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LE Ferdia A16

• Built Denmark 1965 as stern trawler Helen Basse
  651grt. Had a later career as a seismic survey
  vessel.
• Chartered to Irish Naval Service for use as a
  patrol vessel between 1977 and 1978.
• Armament 20mm Oerlikon

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LE Emer P21

• Launched Verolme Cork Dockyard, September 12,
  1977. - 1020 tons disp.
• Commissioned into Irish Naval Service January
  16, 1978
• Armament 40mm Bofors Gun 120 rounds/minute, 2
  x 20 mm heavy machine guns.
• Still in service

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LE Aoife P22

• Launched Verolme Cork Dockyard, May 25, 1979. -
  1020 tons disp.
• Commissioned into Irish Naval Service November
  29, 1978
• Armament 40mm Bofors Gun 120 rounds/minute, 2
  x 20 mm heavy machine guns.
• Fitted with bow thruster
• Still in service

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LE Aisling P23

• Launched Verolme Cork Dockyard, July 27, 1979.
  - 1020 tons disp
• Commissioned into Irish Naval Service May 21,
  1978
• Armament 40mm Bofors Gun 120 rounds/minute, 2
  x 20 mm heavy machine guns.
• Fitted with bow thruster
• Still in service

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LE Eithne P31

• Launched Verolme Cork Dockyard, December 19,
  1983. - 1760 tons displacement
• Commissioned into Irish Naval Service December
  07, 1984
• Armament 57mm Bofors Gun 200 rounds/minute, 2
  x 20 mm Rheinmettal heavy machine guns. 2 x
  Wallop illuminant launchers.
• Hangar for Dauphin 2 helicopter
• Still in service

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LE Orla P41

• Built Hall Russell, September 11, 1984. - 712
  tons displacement
• Commissioned into Royal Navy October 17, 1984
  HMS Swift
• Sold to Irish Naval Service November 21, 1988.
• Armament 76mm OTO Melara gun 120
  rounds/minute, 2 x 12.7 mm heavy machine guns. 4
  x 7.62mm machine guns
• Still in service

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LE Ciara P42

• Built Hall Russell, March 31, 1984. - 712 tons
  displacement
• Commissioned into Royal Navy May 03, 1984 HMS
  Swallow
• Sold to Irish Naval Service November 21, 1988.
• Armament 76mm OTO Melara gun 120
  rounds/minute, 2 x 12.7 mm heavy machine guns. 4
  x 7.62mm machine guns
• Still in service

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LE Rosín P51

• Launched Appledore 1999, December 15, 1999. -
  1500 tons displacement
• Speed 23 knots
• Armament 1x76mm OTO Melara Cannon, 2x1.27mm HMG
  and 4x7.62mm GPMG 

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LE Niamh

• Launched Appledore 2001, September 18, 2001. -
  1500 tons displacement
• Speed 23 knots
• Armament 1x76mm OTO Melara Cannon, 2x1.27mm HMG
  and 4x7.62mm GPMG 

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LE Niamh Engine Room
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Role of the Irish Naval Service

• Primary Role
• National Security
• Secondary Role
• Fishery Protection
• Aid to the Civil Power
• Drug Interdiction
• Maritime Safety
• Diving Operations
• Pollution Control
• Overseas Mission Support

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Irish Military Organisation
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Colours of The Fleet

• National Flag Naval Ensign.
• Naval Jack Irish Flag 1798 to 1921

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Colours of The Fleet

• Naval Service Colour. Presented by President Mary
  Robinson during the Navys 50th Anniversary year.
• Flag officers burgee. Flown on ships or shore
  installation when the fleet Commodore is present.

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Colours of The Fleet

• Commission pennant
• Senior officers pennant.

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Naval Service Commanders
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Naval Service Commanders
Commodore Kavanagh 1993 - 2003
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Commodore Lynch

• Commodore Lynch and Admiral Benito Rotolo of the
  Argentine Navy at the memorial to Admiral William
  Brown, Foxfield, County Mayo. March 3, 2004.

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Naval Auxiliaries

• Past Present

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Sir Cecil Romer

• Built Swansea 1929 for Royal Navy.
• Transferred to Marine Service 1938 on withdrawal
  of British Forces from Treaty Ports.
• Transferred to An Slua Muiri Naval Reserve for
  static training at Waterford City 1990.

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John Adams
Built Richard Thorne, Doncaster 1934 for Royal
Navy
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John Adams
Built Richard Thorne, Doncaster 1934 for Royal
Navy Sold for preservation 1988. Berthed Bideford.
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David F

• Built Zwolle, Netherlands 1962 for Marine
  Transport Services of Cóbh.
• 69grt
• Chartered to INS between 1970 and 1989 until
  acquired.

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David F
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Fiach Dubh (Raven)

• Built in 1981 by Arklow Engineering for Marine
  Transport Services.
• 18.7 grt
• Sold to Irish Naval Service 1985

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Fiach Dubh (Raven)
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FAINLEOG Swallow

• Built Den Dever, Netherlands 1971 for Marine
  Transport Services.
• 14.8grt
• Sold to Irish Naval Service 1982

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Naval Memorials of Cóbh
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HMS Mars Memorial

• In April 1902, 12 members of the ships company of
  the Royal Navy battleship, HMS MARS lost their
  lives during gunnery exercises off the Fastnet
  Rock. Nine of the victims are buried in the Old
  Church Cemetery near Cobh, Co Cork.
• Restoration commenced in 1999 by CPO Owen OKeefe
  INS.
• Centenary Ceremony in April 2002 the ships
  company of HMS Sutherland marched to the
  cemetery.
• This is believed to be the first time a Royal
  Navy crew have marched to commands in Irish
  Gaelic as they accompanied the crew of LE Eithne
  to the cemetery.

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Naval Memorials of Cóbh

• Remembers those crew killed on board HM Submarine
  A5 following an engine room explosion.
• A5 was the first submarine to be deployed to the
  Queenstown Naval Base, built at Barrow, 1904.

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Naval Memorials of Cóbh
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Irish Naval Service Visits to Merseyside
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LE Ciara June 1997
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LE Ciara June 1997
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LE Ciara June 1997
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LE Ciara March 17, 1998
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LE Aisling - June 1998
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LE Aisling
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LE Eithne June 1998
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LE Orla October 1998
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LE Ciara Mersey River Festival June 2005
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LE Ciara Mersey River Festival June 2005
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Going out on patrol

• Some departures from Cóbh

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LE Eithne June 04, 2002
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Haulbowline Departures May 6, 2003 LE Orla
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Haulbowline Departures May 6, 2003 LE Aoifa
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On Patrol

• Naval Service Vessels Around The Coast

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LE Emer Dún Laoghaire Departure September 04,
1999
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LE Emer Dún Laoghaire Departure September 04,
1999
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LE Aoife Dublin Departure May 29, 2000
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LE Aoife Dublin Departure May 29, 2000
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LE Aoife Dublin Departure May 29, 2000
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LE Eithne at Schull August 01, 2001
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LE Eithne Dún Laoghaire Departure June 03, 2002
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LE Eithne Dún Laoghaire Departure June 03, 2002
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LE Ciara Kinsale August 3, 2002
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LE Ciara Kinsale August 3, 2002
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LE Róisín Bantry Bay August 3, 2002
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.. Returning from patrol.
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LE Dierdre December 3, 2000
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LE Aisling June 06, 2002
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LE Aisling - LE Ciara June 06, 2002
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LE Niamh at Roches Point August 05, 2002
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A visit to Haulbowline Dockyard July 27, 2004
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LE Eithne at the bunkering berth.
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LE Emer
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LE Orla and LE Emer
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LE Róisín LE Niamh
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LE Emer
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On Exercise With The Army
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May 26, 2003 LE Róisín
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July 22, 2003 - LE Orla
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Overseas Deployments
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Asia Deployment 2002

• L.E. Niamh travelled further than any other Irish
  Naval Service ship. The trip, which began in
  February 2002, was part of a unique collaboration
  between the Naval Service, Enterprise Ireland,
  the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Irish
  business community, to promote Irish trade links
  in a number of key centres in Asia.L.E. Niamh
  travelled 23,000 miles in 100 days, visited 14
  ports and hosted over 10,000 visitors (including
  nearly 2,500 key business decision makers). Ports
  in India, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Korea and
  Japan were visited with enormous positive
  feedback as a result. L.E. Niamh visited Asia
  having already undertaken a re-supply mission to
  the Defence Forces contingent serving with the UN
  in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
• L.E. Niamh became the first Irish Naval ship to
  cross into the southern hemisphere by around 100
  miles.

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Asia Deployment 2002
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Other deployments

• 2005 USA Canada
• 2006 LE Eithne to Argentina Celebrating 200
  Years of the Argentine Navy.

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RCC Suirbhéir
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Royal Navy Visitor HMS Guernsey August 05, 2004
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Slán Abhaile