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Photos from Eddie Duffy

April 2007

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Irish Pine enters her home port 1978

English channel

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	Irish Pine 1941-2 Sank by U-Boat-33 crew lost	Irish Pine (2) 1948-65	Irish Pine (3) 1973-84

The MV IRISH PINE was a very popular ship when she sailed in the Irish Shipping Ltd colours. Completed by Upper Clyde Ship Builders Ltd, Govan (Yard Number 126) in 1973. She was sold for $3.9m in 1983. In the two black and white photos she is seen as the MV CHRISTINAKI arriving in Liverpool to load what turned out to be her last cargo. A few weeks later on the 1st February 1993, she foundered at sea in extremely bad weather south-west of Ireland. Onboard were five Greek officers and twenty two Filipino, none of whom survived. The cause of the accident was believed to be the forward hatch being blown off. in the appalling weather. A search, carried out by French and British aircraft, was called off on the 7th February 1993. Gerry McGovern March 2022

CREW MEMBER WITH BROKEN LEG BEING TAKEN ASHORE IN QUEBECK CANADA 1963	My father was looking at your web site with ref to the Irish Pine in 1963 and saw your question about the crew member with a broken leg. It actually is my father Mr Tom O' Leary from Cork City, Ireland, his leg was broken and also badly severed but is now held together with nuts and bolt. Adrian O' Leary (June 2013)

Irish Pine Willie Richardson (November 20120

Can anybody help in identifying these men from the Irish Pine of 1949? Photo from Leo Coy. If you can please email here Thank you.		<<<From Mark Russell: (8-11-12) The two cooks are Arthur Madden (Dublin) & Thomas Forde (Mayo).Taken in February 1949 in Boston.	Irish Pine of 1949

			Irish Pine Dublin port R.Saunders (April 2012)
	Irish Pine 1975 Brian Lattimore (October 2012)			1962	1984

Some photos of the Irish Pine arriving at Long Beach in 1980, and the end result of (6) Junior Engineers in one ship. Sean Larkin March 2009
				L/R...B Desmond J/E, J Butler J/E, J Tyrrell J/E, J Dunphy E/E, P Good J/E, S Larkin J/E, D Potter J/E

Photos and comments from Tony Clements

Tony Clements Cap Badge from 1961
(August 2012)

At Sea, North Atlantic , December 1961.

All unknown except for third from right, Tony “Clem” Clements (AB).

Norfolk , Virginia , December 1961.

(l to r): Chippy?, Jimmy Gorman (AB), Tom Grannell-(Bosun)

Norfolk , Virginia , December 1961.

(l to r): Chippy?, Tony “Clem” Clements (AB), Tom Grannell-(Bosun)

Norfolk , Virginia , January 1962.

Loading hogsheads of tobacco leaf for Dublin and Cork

Photos from Eamonn Frampton February 2007
	Cape Horn, March 1975 Jr. Engineer and Paddy Garry	Equator, Pacific ocean, February 1975 Tom Kenny's baby son is baptized by King Neptune Paddy Garry and John Buggy	Buenos Aires, Argentina March 1975 left F/B-Engineer?, Paddy Garry, Eamonn Frampton Right F/B-Engineer? Engineer? OS?, Johnnie Walker	At Santa Fe, Argentina Can't really get any further up the river!!! March 1975

1960/61 photos from Michael Mills

First photo shows Irish Pine in Newport 1961.

Next one a comment from the Irish press from January 1962

Both pieces would have been dated between 29/8/'61 and 17/01/'62 as from my Discharge Book, Skipper was McCarthy and C. Eng was Dobson. My background was Class of '55 Crawford Inst. Cork.
John Keating-- December 2007

Here is the Irish Pine 1983>>>
but I can not remember where it is. Of note regarding the Pine, during the year prior to the real demise of ISL the Pine was sold, the rumour at the time was that she was sold just to keep the company afloat for a few more months. The proceeds of the sale were never adequately documented by the liquidator although the sale took place before he was appointed. How much of the sale proceeds went against company debt and how much went against corporate wages and packages was never determined. Capt. Paul Reid

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