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Former B+I booking office in Westmoreland Street Dublin 1960/70s
           

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Linda Hayes (Purdy) along with Ms. Rosemary Docherty were the first female purser's in the 150 year history of the B+I Line.
Today (2006) Mrs. Hayes is a senior purser onboard the largest passenger car ferry in the world and following her lead the management team of ten onboard the ship now has 5 female pursers.
Also in 1987 the first women officer on a B+I ship Ms.Caroline Meaney, joined the M.V.Tipperary. 

B+I Line Brochure 1980
(Eddie Meade 2011)

B&I Line 1980 Brochure.pdf




Restaurant Menu 1982











Strike
28th.November 1985

Connacht spects
Connacht spects

 

Photo taken in the blacksmiths yard in B&I North Wall circa 1942, the boy in the centre of the photo is a young John Walsh(14) from Seville Place who started in the B&I in the blacksmiths yard before going on to work as a checker and then working on the ships themselves. and a good friend of my father. We have no other information about anyone else in the photo unfortunately.
Photo from John Walsh jr.
Brendan Balmaine July 2011

Passenger fleet 1981
Nicholas Beggs with the last horses used  by the B&I Line.>>>
(Photo from Fiona Beggs, May 2011
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Worker Directors


B+I Line Bulletin >>>

1981.pdf

1984.pdf

 



Quiz team 1984

ships cook certs. 1980s
 

 

  Sailing Schedule 1973      
B+I TEAM FROM 1933/4
THAT SEASON THE TEAM WON 4 MAJOR TROPHIES
THE FREE STATE CUP, THE LEINSTER JUNIOR CUP, THE LEINSTER SNR. LEAGUE DIV.2
AND THE EDMOND JOHNSTON CUP.
B/R-T. MATTHEWS, J. THOMPSON, P. ROONEY, R. WITTAKER, W. RYAN, P. BRADSHAW, P. SANDS.
F/R- C. YOUNG, P. FITZSIMONS, T. NICOLLE, P. MULHALL (CAPT.) D, BARRY, P. GRANT, L. LYNCH.

M.V. Leinster 11 from the 1950s

Photo from Graeme Jones and his father James Albert Jones is 4th. from the left on the front row.

 

 

Master at Arms  course 1984
Included are: Sean Mitten, B. Herdman, S. M.Fields, J. Ivers, Bull Moore, 
P. Gagurin, J. Mc Parland, D. Hollywood, J. Duff, K. Doherty

Coast lines and B+I Line ship postcards.

Bryan Holmes 2008

 
  Lady Connaught. Lady Louth Lady Limerick.

1920s 

Lady Munster.

1930s

Killarney.  

MV. Inniscarra  passing Beaulieu House / Mornington on the River Boyne heading up to Drogheda 1958.

Photo taken by Kieran J. Campbell Sr.


©Kieran Campbell 2009

    M. V. Leinster 
Crew members postcard from 1951
       
             
             

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