SS Lady Wicklow

SS *Lady Wicklow*
	Free State officers disembarking from Lady Wicklow at Passage West in 1922
History
Owner	City of Dublin Steam Packet Company (1890–1924), then British and Irish Steam Packet Company
Builder	Blackwood & Gordon, Port Glasgow
Yard number	230
Launched	28 March 1895
Identification	Official number: 104963
Fate	Scrapped 21 August 1948
General characteristics
Type	Steamship
Tonnage	1,207 GRT, 470 NRT
Length	262 ft (80 m)
Beam	34 ft (10 m)

SS Lady Wicklow was a steam-powered ferry built in 1895 in Port Glasgow for the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. She was 262 feet long and had a beam of 34 feet. She was scrapped in 1948.[1]

During Irish Free State offensive of the Irish Civil War in July and August 1922 the Irish Free State used her as a troopship,[2] firstly to transport 450 officers and men to Fenit, the port of Tralee[3] and then with TSS Arvonia to take troops from Dublin to Cork.[2]

Sources

"Wicklow". Scottish built ships. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
McIvor, Aidan (1994). A History of the Irish Naval Service. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. pp. 44–48. ISBN 0-7165-2523-2.
Harrington, Niall (1992). Kerry Landing. Dublin: Anvil Books. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-947962-70-8.

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