Tag Archives: Wartime Sinking
Remember: Steam Trawler Leukos
Sunk with all 11 hands by gunfire from U-38 (Liebe) - NW Tory Island - 9th March 1940
The Leukos was fishing in the company of&nb...
Remember – Munster
Mined and sunk in the Irish Sea - 2nd February 1940
five wounded, one died later
The first Irish ship to be sunk in World War Two w...
Close Encounter with U-Boat
Ireland’s Close Encounter with German U-Boat
By Denis Martin FTU
At 4pm on the afternoon of Wednesday the 4th October 1939 t...