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Service to commemorate 450 years of the establishment of a shipping service between Dublin and Holyhead.
David J Wynne
A
service was held in St. Philip’s Church, Milltown, Dublin on Sunday 10th
July 2011 to mark 450 years of the establishment of a shipping service between
Dublin and Holyhead by the then Government of Ireland to carry official
documents.
The service was held in St Phillips because the church contains a stained glass
window in memory of William Green
Skipworth, a London North Western Railway Manager who died in 1898 and lived on
The service was well attended by past and present members of Stena Lines and its
predecessor, Sea Link and by friends and supporters from
Caroline Scott, Stena, Canon Adrian Empey, Eamon Hewitt, Communications Manager,
Stena, Mrs Jean Llewelyn Williams, Deputy Mayor of Holyhead, Joe Ryan, Irish
Maritime Institute, Richard Burrell, Holyhead Maritime Museum, Rev Sonia Gyles.
Bran Scott, Stena, Organiser, and Terry Doyle, Dun Laoghaire Port Manager,
Stena, stand in fromt of the window to commemorate
W.G.Skipworth at
the Service to mark 450 years of mail services between Dublin Area and Holyhead
which took place at St Philip's, Milltown
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