Sailors lost at sea

From Mike Hackett Youghal.
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>    Over one-hundred sailors and fishermen from the Ardmore-Youghal area
> were lost to the water since 1882.  Almost all have been listed now
> and the boats and vessels involved are recorded.  The places of the
> different tragedies and the dates of the happenings are also listed,
> where known.
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> Sailors and Seamen of the Youghal area who lost their lives to the water.
>    Mary Lincoln of Monatrea was drowned in Youghal Harbour on the 30th
> of September 1876.  She was one of fourteen people lost to the water
> when the local ferryboat foundered on its way across to the
> Ferrypoint.  A Swedish barque was docked at Green’s Quay at the time
> -  and the crew went to the rescue and managed to save a big number of
> the ferryboat passengers.
>    Captain Fleming of Youghal died on the schooner ‘Hertford’ when it
> shipwrecked on the Wexford coast in 1882.  It was owned by local
> merchants Flemings and the captain was one of the family.
> James Butler of Windmill Hill also died on the schooner ‘Hertford’.
> James was actually a baker by trade and this was his first voyage.
> Patrick McCarthy and Seaman Bennett, both of Youghal, were also lost
> in that incident.
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> Walter William Burke of Hanover Street contracted Yellow Fever on the
> Tall-Ship ‘Melanope’ in 1894.  He died at sea and the vessel brought
> the body into Rio-De-Janeiro, Brazil, where he is buried.
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>    The ‘Charmaine’, owned by Farrells, was on a North Atlantic passage
> in 1899 when James Meade of Youghal was lost overboard.  James was
> twenty-two years of age.  The vessel was under the command of Captain
> John Mattis and was going to collect a cargo to bring back to Fenit in
> County Kerry.
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>    Tom Loughlin of the Mall captained the sailing ship ‘Perfect’, a boat
> that left Youghal every Spring in the mid-eighteen-hundreds to sail to
> the Americas.  Cargo outwards would be dairy produce and on the return
> voyage, timber like mahogany was imported. Tom had four sons named
> Tommy, Michael, Jack and Jim.  Tommy was sailing with his father (at
> just nineteen) when he was washed overboard off the Lizard.  Captain
> Tom had to be forcibly restrained from jumping overboard in what would
> have been a hopeless attempt to save his son.
>    Another son of Captain Tom, Miko Loughlin of the Mall, died on the
> schooner William S. Green, shipwrecked on the Devon Coast in 1904.
>    Move on to 1917, when Jack Loughlin, then himself a captain, was
> drowned with all his crew on the ‘S.S. Ballater’ (Liverpool).  It was
> during the First-World-War, in September 1917, that a submarine attack
> caused that loss.  Jack was then fifty-two years of age.
>    And so of the original four Loughlin sons, who sailed out with their
> father, only Jim (also now a captain) remained.  He was affectionatey
> known as Jimo and it was his belief that ‘Davy Jones Locker’ had taken
> enough of the Loughlin family.  So Jimo retired from seafaring,
> settled down ashore and lived to a ripe old age.
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>    Danny Coakley of North Main Street and Tommy Walsh of Mary Street
> also died then on the William S. Green.
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> Jack Smyth of Flemimgs Court, Tallow Street, died on the ‘Annette’
> when she went onto the rocks below Youghal Lighthouse in 1905.
> Captain Kirby of Dungarvan died on the same occasion.
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> Patrick McCarthy of Mouse Street caught a disease on a brigantine,
> died and was buried in Archangel in Russia.  He was grandfather of the
> late Noel Donoghue of Cross Lane.
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> Paddy O’Brien of Ballyvergan was lost overboard from the destroyer
> ‘Cossack’ at Ayr in Scotland, in 1919.  He slipped on a steep gangway
> and hit his head on the quay-wall.
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> Captain Patrick O’Brien of Strand Street, died of blood poisoning on
> the ‘B.I.’ at Runcorn, Merseyside in 1914, at the age of 32.
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> Martin Bland of Church Street died on ship in 1920 and was buried in
> Aruba in the Dutch Carribean. He was father of the late George Bland
> of O’Rahilly Street.
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> James Duggan of Church Lane, in an attempt to rescue a fellow sailor,
> was drowned while the schooner ‘Elizabeth Drew’ was berthed at New
> Ross in 1933.
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>    William Perrott of Wales was drowned in 1933 while attempting to swim
> ashore from the ketch ‘Daisy’ while it was moored in Upper Youghal
> Harbour.  There is a memorial to William chiselled into the rock near
> Youghal Lighthouse and he is buried in Templemichael graveyard.
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> Tommy Smyth of the Alms Houses was lost overboard at Rouen in france in 1933.
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> William John Coleman of Quay Lane died aboard ship in 1936 on the way
> to Australia. He was buried at sea.
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>    Captain Michael Duggan of Church Street was lost on the ‘Nellie
> Fleming’ which foundered without trace between the Bristol Channel and
> Youghal in February 1936.  Also lost on the same vessel were: Batty
> Glavin, on the way home to his daughter’s wedding; Eddie Sullivan of
> Raheen Road on his first voyage as cabin boy; Dan Kenneally of The
> Mall, father of a large family; and Declan Doyle of Penders Lane,
> eighteen years of age.
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> William Ring of 135 North Main Street was lost overboard in Cardiff
> Docks in 1937.  Having managed to hold onto a rope all night, he died
> the following morning from exposure.
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> John Doyle from Gallagher Terrace fell overboard while on a voyage to
> Australia in 1938.  He was a brother to Declan Doyle, lost on the
> ‘Nellie Fleming’ two years earlier.
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> Connie Troy of Windmill Hill was electrocuted while repairing his
> fishing boat at Cobh in 1946.
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> Michael O’Regan of South Cross Road was serving in the Irish Naval
> Service on the ‘L.E. Cliona’ in 1952.  He took ill on board, was
> brought to hospital but sadly died at just eighteen.
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> Patrick Sullivan of South Cross Road, was lost overboard at
> Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1962.
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> Teddy Murphy of Kent Street, was struck down with appendicitis at sea
> in 1962 on the ship ‘Ordinance’.  He died in Dunkirk hospital.
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> Tom Paul Ring of Sarsfield Terrace and Joey Gaule of Mall Lane died
> while asleep in their bunks on the ‘Irish Sycamore’ as it lay docked
> in New Orleans in 1965.  Smoke inhalation was the cause of death when
> a fire started in an empty cabin next door.
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> Gerry Griffin of Brown Street, was lost overboard from the ‘Mossville’
> while berthed at Cork in 1967.  It was said that a plank gangway
> slipped.
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> Noel O’Brien of De Valera Street died when he fell overboard from a
> dredger on the river Thames in 1968.
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> Joe Higgins of Strand Street fell between vessel and quay at Greenock
> in Scotland in 1970 and was drowned.  The ship was the ‘M.V. St.
> William’.
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> Timothy J. Harnedy from Inchiquin, Killeagh was drowned in 1982 while
> swimming at Bondi Beach in Australia.  Ted was the ship’s radio
> officer and was on leave, awaiting a plane home.
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> James Jessie Collins of Raheen Road, died on the tanker ‘Rathcoyle’ in
> 1994.  Asleep in his bunk, while docked at Ellesmere Port near
> Chester, he died of a heart attack.
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> Fishermen who died in River, Harbour and Bay tragedies.
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> James Hannigan of Wesley Place, drowned when a salmon yawl overturned
> in Youghal Harbour in 1886.  Connie Glavin of Greens Quay was also
> lost in that disaster.
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> Two Flaherty brothers and two Mulcahy brothers of Monatrea, were
> drowned when their salmon boat capsized at Mangans Cove in 1887.
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>    Four men were drowned near the Metal Bridge in 1892 when their salmon
> yawl turned over.  They were Maurice Keogh, Maurice Fleming, William
> Keating and John White  --  all were from Ardsallagh.  They were using
> a dipping-lug sail at the time with which it was hard to change tack.
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>    John Hogan of Ardsallagh went for a swim in 1916 at the High Rock
> near Fleming’s Ferry, between fishing the tides., and it cost him his
> life.  He had his passage booked to America and a tailor named Bride
> in Youghal was making a suit of clothes for him.
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>    Tommy Smith of Primrose Lane, was drowned in Youghal Harbour in 1923
> when his salmon boat captized.  With him and also lost were Pats
> Murray of Monatrea and Tom Aher of Porters Lane.  Saved that day was
> Mike Hannigan, who was Cox of the local lifeboat for years.
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> Bob Foley of Water treet was drowned when another salmon boat turned
> over in 1927.  Also lost then were Declan Kenure of Windmill Lane and
> Jim Boland of Water Street.
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>    Then in 1933, yet another salmon yawl capsized on the river.  Drowned
> that day were Johnny Brennan of The Mall and Tommy Truxie Griffin of
> Mill Road.  Rescued were Tommy Muta Heaphy and Mike O’Neill.
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> Mick O’Brien-Stokes of Sarsfield Terrace died of a heart attack in his
> boat while fishing down the harbour in 1949.
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> Paddy Barry of Ceann a Bhotair (Redbarn)  received severe head
> injuries when his boat turned over off the beach at Redbarn in 1954.
> He died of his injuries in hospital.
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> Declan Hannon of South Main Street was lost overboard from a fishing
> boat in Waterford Harbour in 1972.
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> Danny Twohig of Blackwater Heights suffered a heart attack while
> hauling his nets on the river in 1992.  He died in the boat.
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> Lost at War
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> Richard Ahern of Youghal,  died when the ‘H.M.S. Goliah’ was sunk in 1915.
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> William Patrick Nolan of Brown Street, died in the sinking of ‘H.M.S.
> Defence’ in 1916.
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> Michael Mulcahy of Ardmore was killed when the ‘H.M.S. Indefatigable’
> was sunk in 1916.
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> Maurice McGrath of the Clock Gate, died on the ‘H.M.S. Davis’ in 1917.
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> John Hyde of the Ferrypoint, died when the ‘H.M.S. Cornwall’ went down in 1918.
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>    When the ‘H.M.S. Laurentic’ hit a minefield in Lough Swilly on the
> river Foyle near Malin Head, Derry in 1917, it cost the lives of five
> Youghal sailors.  They were: Patrick Brennan and John Buckley, both of
> The Mall; William Lynch, Buckley’s Lane; Jacky O’Brien and James Gaule
> of Windmill Lane.
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> William Glavin of Windmill Hill was lost when the minesweeper
> ‘Mignonette’ was torpedoed off the Cork coast in 1917.
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> Tommy Stack of South Cross Road, Miley Long of Water Street and Jack
> Murphy of South Main Street died in 1940 when the aircraft carrier
> ‘H.M.S. Glorious’ was sunk by battle cruisers in the North Sea.
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> Brendan Murphy of Market square and William Kirby of The Mall died on
> the cruiser ‘H.M.S. Gallatea’ when it was torpedoed and sunk off
> Alexandria in 1941.  It sank in ninety seconds.
>    Two more Youghal men died when the battleship ‘H.M.S. Barham’ was
> torpedoed and sunk off Alexandria in 1941.  They were Jerry Connolly
> of Cork Hill and Bobby Webster of Sarsfield Terrace.  The two men were
> stokers down below and had little chance of escape following the four
> torpedo hits.
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> Tommy Roche of Water Street died when the armed trawler ‘Lincoln City’
> was sunk in the North Atlantic in 1941.  He is buried on the Faroe
> Islands.
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>    Jimmy Walsh of Raheen Road lost his life early during the Second
> World War when his ship, a merchantman, was sunk by a torpedo.  It is
> said that in his house was a picture of a sailor returning home with
> his bag over his shoulder and his family running to greet him.  On the
> night that Jimmy died at sea, the picture fell off the wall for no
> apparent reason  --  the cord had not broken and the nail was still
> firmly stuck in the wall.
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> Bill Kelly of Market Square was killed when his vessel, the
> ‘Swiftpool’ was bombed while moored on the Thames river.
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> Maurice Cooney of Kent Street, on another merchantman, was killed by U
> boat action in 1941.
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> Tommy Mulcahy of Market Square died on the ‘Kingston Hill’ after it
> was torpedoed in 1941.  He was engaged to be married.
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> John Ronayne of South Cross Road was in the merchant navy and was lost
> as a result of U boat action early in the war.
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> Edward Fowkes of Ashe Street was on the ‘Shakespeare’ during an
> aircraft attack on the ship.  He was killed on deck.
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> Peter Lynch of Church Street lost his life when ‘S.S. Milos’ was
> torpedoed and sunk in 1942.  His parents later lived in the house
> which had been the Fever Hospital at Raheen Road.
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>    Alfie Hartnett of Barrys Lane was on the ‘Irish Pine’ when it was
> sunk by U-608 in the North Atlantic in 1942.  The ‘Irish Pine’ was
> clearly showing neutral markings and was lit up to show the Irish
> connection.  It was a bad decision on the part of the U boat captain.
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> Connie Glavin of Cork Hill died when his vessel the ‘S.S. Miriam
> Thomas’ was run over by an American troop ship in the Irish Sea.
> There was no survivor from Connie’s ship after that calamity.
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> Eddie Glavin of Cork Hill, Connie’s brother, died when his ship was
> torpedoed, just three days out of New Zealand, in 1943.
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> Michael Lynch of Kent Street fell ill on board his ship ‘S.S. British
> Renown’ in 1944 and died.  He is buried on the Isle of Wight.
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> Paddy McGrath of Strand Street died when the ‘S.S. Empire Heritage’
> was sunk by a mine in 1944.  He had earlier survived two sinkings by
> torpedo in the North Atlantic.
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> More Youghal Seaman Lost
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>    Captain William O’Brien of The Mall was drowned when he fell
> overboard at Greens Quay from the ‘Rob Roy’ in 1900.  It seems that he
> had been asleep in his bunk for awhile before he awoke to find the
> ship ranging (beginning to tug) at her ropes due to a build-up of sea
> swell.  A storm was imminent!  William got up to adjust the fenders of
> the vessel, ensuring that it would not damage itself against the quay
> wall.  Tragically, in the process, he fell overboard and was drowned.
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>    Another Captain, William Jones of Friar Street, was lost from the
> ‘S.S.’ Athena’ as the vessel navigated the Majellan Straits in
> Southern Argentina.  It happened in 1904, ten years before the opening
> of the Panama Canal.  At that time, the only way from the Pacific
> Ocean to the Atlantic for large ships was around Cape Horn, or via the
> nearby Majellan Straits for smaller ones.
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>    When the ‘Hiland Mar’ went onto the rocks at Ardo Head near Ardmore
> in 1894, it cost the lives of two Youghal sailors.  They were named as
> seamen Bennet and Fenton and both were from the Windmill Hill area.
> The ‘Hiland Mar’ was carrying steel for an extension to the Youghal
> Brickworks on that ill-fated voyage.  The skipper  --  Captain Nagle
> of The Mall  --  escaped by climbing the cliffs to reach the nearby
> house of the Terry family.
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>    In the second half of the last century, two disasters in Ardmore cost
> the lives of four of their salmon fishermen.  On both occasions, the
> boats overturned.  Lost to the sea in 1982 were:  Liam Lincoln and Tom
> Morrissey of Ardmore.
> Then in 1995 cousins  Paul Dunne and Edmond Fitzgerald also died in
> similar circumstances when they drowned while salmon fishing at
> Ardmore.
>    God grant peace to all their souls.