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Used as a troopship by the Irish Free State

SS Lady Wicklow
Free State officers disembarking from Lady Wicklow at Passage West in 1922
History
OwnerCity of Dublin Steam Packet Company (1890–1924), then British and Irish Steam Packet Company
BuilderBlackwood & Gordon, Port Glasgow
Yard number230
Launched28 March 1895
IdentificationOfficial number: 104963
FateScrapped 21 August 1948
General characteristics
TypeSteamship
Tonnage1,207 GRT, 470 NRT
Length262 ft (80 m)
Beam34 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.

During Irish Free State offensive of the Irish Civil War in July and August 1922 the Irish Free State used her as a troopship, firstly to transport 450 officers and men to Fenit, the port of Tralee and then with TSS Arvonia to take troops from Dublin to Cork.

Sources

  1. "Wicklow". Scottish built ships. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
  2. ^ McIvor, Aidan (1994). A History of the Irish Naval Service. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. pp. 44–48. ISBN 0-7165-2523-2.
  3. Harrington, Niall (1992). Kerry Landing. Dublin: Anvil Books. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-947962-70-8.


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