SS Lady Wicklow
SS Lady Wicklow was a steam-powered ferry built in 1890 in Belfast for the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. She was 262 feet long and had a beam of 34 feet.
_and_Comdt._McCreagh_or_McCrea_(21840621989).jpg) Free State officers disembarking from Lady Wicklow at Passage West in 1922 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Owner: | City of Dublin Steam Packet Company (1890–1924), then British and Irish Steam Packet Company |
| Launched: | 1890 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Steamship |
| Displacement: | 1,000 tons |
| Length: | 262 ft (80 m) |
| Beam: | 34 ft (10 m) |
During Irish Free State offensive of the Irish Civil War in July and August 1922 the Irish Free State used her as a troopship,[1] firstly to transport 450 officers and men to Fenit, the port of Tralee[2] and then with TSS Arvonia to take troops from Dublin to Cork.[1]
Sources
- 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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