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IRISH POPLAR 1941-49 | IRISH POPLAR(2)1956-72. |
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Photos from Eamonn Frampton |
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Irish Poplar North Atlantic Nov. 1968. | M. Russell 1970'. |
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At Sea, bound Suez Canal from Geraldton, Western
Australia, April 1959. (l to r): Paddy Kinsella and Paddy Crane. |
Dublin Bay, January 1959. |
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D O'Rourke off the Azores, Irish Poplar 1969. | North Atlantic 1969. |
The ship is the
Irish Poplar, the bridge in the background is the Barrow Bridge where the
Barrow and the Suir meet to flow out the estuary, the location of the
photograph is Cheek point, the date is a little more tricky. Looking into the
background the Great Island E.S.B. generating station is not yet built and that
dates it prior to the early 1960's. The Poplar was registered in Waterford and
was the main caller to the port;
therefore we can be reasonably sure it is she. There is
not any way of telling the difference between her and the Spruce; I sailed on
both in the capacity of electrician.
info from Edward Griffin and Don Menzies.
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