LIFFEY MAID

[roypaule]

Hi all,

I'm trying to do a research on a steamship named Liffey Maid (Fleetwood). I understand that there were casualties recorded on this ship as of 25 August 1917. What happened to this ship on this date? was she attacked by a u-boat or mined and sunk hence the casualties? location?

Thank you in advance.

Roy

[Michael Lowrey]

Roy,

The Liffey Maid wasn't a steamer, but rather a 111 grt schooner built in 1865 in Dublin. Official Number: 51087. Owner per the 1916/17 edition of Lloyd's Register of Shipping was Miss H. McClenaham with the vessel registered in Fleetwood. Liffey Maid sailed on August 25, 1917 from St. Valery for Ellesmere Port with a cargo of flint but never arrived at her destination. The vessel was posted as missing. There’s no known matching U-boat sinking claim. Given that the weather was rather nasty about August 28, it’s likely that the Liffey Maid simply foundered with the loss of all hands.

Best wishes,

Michael

[Terence Munson]

Seems the powers that be decided otherwise and four are commemorated:

DAVIS, T. Seaman CWGC Link

JENSEN, JENS CHRISTIAN (59) Master CWGC Link

JONES, CHARLES. Mate CWGC Link

RALPH, G. Cook CWGC Link

Terry

[HERITAGE PLUS]

I think that these men are commemorated on Tower Hill as 'believed drowned'.

[Terence Munson]

Many of those commemorated who were lost at sea are/were presumed drowned.

Terry

[Guest]

Hello, I see that you have been enquiringly about the Liffey Maid of Fleetwood. My family owned this boat but had sold it before she sank. The Liffey Maid traded out of Killyleagh in Strangford Lough Co Down, she took potatoes and other agricultural produce to the north of England and returned with coal. I have a painting of her under sail coming into Belfast Lough. 

[Guest]

I have an update on Liffey Maid.  My Great Great Grandfather Robert McClenahan was a ship owner from Dundalk/Blackrock, Co. Louth in Ireland.  He owned the ship from 1913-1915 and it presumably passed to Hannah Isabella McClenahan (his daughter) on his death in 1915. Hannah was my mothers paternal grandmother. https://www.benjidog.co.uk/Tower Hill/WW1 Lepanto to Linwood.html