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The
Idaho
• The
Lismore
• The
Shamrock II
• The
L.E. Muirchú
• The
Yacht 'Coronet'
• Dry
Card Compass
• The
Curraghgour II
•
The
Foxwell
• The
Admiralty Buoy Light
• The
Isolda
• The
Jolie Brise
•
Gaff
Rigged Vessels
•
The
well dressed diver
•
The
way we lived then...
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Other
items of interest |
The
Shamrock II
The SHAMROCK
II was built in the Liffey Dockyard for Dublin Corporation in
1956 at a cost of £129,750. She spent an inglorious career
dumping Dublin’s “sludge” into the Irish Sea
until she was scrapped in 1985 and replaced by the present sludge
ship with the rather pretentious name of SIR JOSEPH BAZALGETTE
– affectionately known as “The Lord Mayor’s
Yacht”! |
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The
propellers on either side of the fireplace (each weighing approximately
half a ton and cast in manganese bronze) are from the SHAMROCK II
– as are the porthole windows of the display cabinet. These
portholes adorned the ship’s Captain’s cabin. The tables
in the parlour and the doors which discretely hide away the large
screen television – strictly for sport only – were originally
cabin doors of the SHAMROCK II. If you examine these tables closely
you will see three large wooden dowels on each side. These plugged
the ends of a steel bolt running through the doors to give extra
strength to withstand the impact of heavy seas. |
Kehoe's
Pub and Parlour, Kilmore Quay, Co Wexford, Ireland,
p (+ 353 53) 29830; e-mail:
mail@kehoes.com,
Eleanor and James Kehoe, Proprietors
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