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Pals,

 

On 10 October 1918, the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company ship RMS Leinster was torpedoed and sunk in the Irish Sea, shortly after leaving Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire) County Dublin. Current research shows that over 550 were lost in the sinking. Casualties included ship's crew, postal sorters in the ship's mail room and civilians from Ireland and Britain. But the majority of casualties were in the armed forces. Soldiers, sailors, airmen and nurses, they came from Ireland, Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Josephine Carr, the first Wren to die on active service, was among those lost. 

 

Ireland's National Maritime Museum is putting together a  programme to mark the centenenary. If you would like to be kept informed as plans develop, please email info@rmsleinster.com It would greatly help if you mentioned in your email that you are replying to a notice on the Great War Forum and did not have a relative aboard the RMS Leinster (unless of course you did!). Many relatives send in emails without giving their relative's name. The standard response is to reply, asking if the person had a relative on the ship and if so, to please give their name. Mentioning that you are replying to a notice on the Great War Forum and did not a relative on the ship will help save time.

 

You might like to look at the website www.rmsleinster.com

 

Philip

 

 

 

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We at the Holyhead Maritime Museum are currently also preparing plans to commemorate, in October 2018, the loss of RMS Leinster, when the town lost 27 crew and passengers. We are working with our friends at the National Maritime Museum of Ireland (Philip and Co) to exchange information and co-ordinate some of the activities. For more information about the tragedy of 100 years ago and find out about plans for the commemoration at Holyhead go to rmsleinster100.wordpress.com. We would be very interested to make contact with present day relatives of those on board on that fateful day. For those with Irish connections, we will pass information onto Philip and Co.

Barry Hillier - Trustee, Holyhead Maritime Museum

Image is of RMS Leinster, painted in 1900 and on display at the museum.

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