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Derelict Ships to be removed

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  • #32
    CantGetNoSleep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,260 ✭✭✭CantGetNoSleep


    jayboi wrote: »
    I get a nice Craggy Island feeling when i go past myself.

    To be fair if coming right off the bridge that whole part of town is shocking.
    The railings there are unbelievable are they to be sorted with this whole flood relief scheme?
    I’d like to see the halting site their moved a somewhere else as well its nothing personal though.
    Into the river maybe?


  • #33
    Green Hornet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭Green Hornet


    CantGetNoSleep wrote: »
    Into the river maybe?
    :D:D


  • #34
    jayboi
    Registered Users Posts: 752 ✭✭✭jayboi


    CantGetNoSleep wrote: »
    Into the river maybe?

    Or a galaxy far far away.


  • #35
    19.5V
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭19.5V


    Anyone know the history of this wreck and how/why it ended its days, like the picture shows?

    I believe that this boat was one of the last functioning steam ships of its type in Europe!


  • #36
    Silverado
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭Silverado


    That seems to be the famous Mudboat, Portlairge. According to the Munster Express she seems to be somewhere in Wexford http://www.munster-express.ie/local-news/the-%E2%80%98portlairge-sails-again/

    She was a lovely old ship and evokes many memories of her working along the river keeping the channel dredged to allow the larger ships get to our Quays. Its a sad sight but we can't keep all the old ships.


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  • #37
    JackM_79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭JackM_79


    More affectionately known as 'the mud boat', it was the waterford harbour dredger for over 100 years, its an awful shame the condition it was left in. It currently lies somewhere in bannow bay i think.

    A small bit of info here - http://www.mariner.ie/?p=667

    portlairge.jpg


  • #38
    19.5V
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭19.5V


    Anyone got the RTE video that was aired 6th July 2008 about this boat the "Portlairge"


  • #39
    magick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,478 ✭✭✭magick


    mike65 wrote: »
    I'll miss them lurking in the winter mists....

    Every Christmas I travel over 6000 miles and its one of the first sites i see of my home town. They will be missed


  • #40
    wellbutty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 478 ✭✭wellbutty


    Looks like the "Portlairge" here:

    http://ims0.osiemaps.ie/website/publicviewer/main.aspx#V1,681600,610009,7


  • #41
    19.5V
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭19.5V


    Nice bit of techno there wellbutty, it is also visible on google earth

    Found this on RTE http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0706/nationwide.html


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