Irish Ships and Shipping
Irish Shipping Ltd.
Crew and Ships
Irish Elm
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| IRISH ELM 1941-45. | IRISH ELM(2) 1953-63 | IRISH ELM(3)1968-79. |
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Irish Elm Keel Laying and construction 1966/7-Photos and info Jim Whyte (May 2018)
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1966 09 July Keel laid at Verolme Cork Dockyard Rushbrooke Co
Cork.
1967 28 Sep Launched
1968 05 Jan Sea Trials
08 Jan Arrived Rotterdam for Drydocking (too big for
Cork)
19 Jan Handed over to ISL from Verolme United
Shipyards
(Capt B. Reilly)
20 Jan Commenced maiden voyage to Pepel, Sierra Leone
04 May ~ 03 July Car Decks fitted at Blohm & Voss
shipyard Hamburg
1979 08 Mar Sold, after drydocking at Wilton in Rotterdam, by
ISL,
(Capt. W.D. Garvey). Renamed "Pelopiadas"
Total cargo carried by Irish Elm while owned by ISL was 1,467,708 tonnes.
This tonnage includes 127,687 automobiles carried during that
period.
She did have the distinction of being the largest LoLo car carrier
in the world when she entered service.
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 Irish Cedar alongside on lay-by to drydock. |
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| Irish Elm 1 and
2 and ships model by maritime artist Brian Cleare. Facebook contact: November 2015. |
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| Irish Elm 1970 Liam Gavin (February 2014) |
Irish Elm 1970 Boat drill under supervision of 3rd Officer Jim Ryder. |
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Irish Elm 1970 Left to right: Deck Cadet Liam Gavin and 2nd Officer Fergal Henderson |
Irish Elm 1970 Left to Right: Eng Cadet Eric Kealy and 3rd Engineer Pat Collins holding on top Deck Cadet Liam Gavin. |
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| Irish Elm 1978 Japan and South America Brian Lattimore (October 2012) |
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| Passing through
the Panama canal 1978 |
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| Hiroshima Peace
Gardens Japan 1978 |
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| Brian
Lattimore's 21st. Irish Elm 1978 |
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| Irish Elm
1969/70 (Richard Saunders2012) |
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| In the Mersey 1960s | Irish Elm and
Irish Rose Dublin 1961 |
Panama canal 1969 | Panama canal 1969 | |
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| Philip Hawkins | Loading cars in Japan 1969 | Timmy Rafter, Richard Saunders |
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| Irish Elm Panama Canal 1974 Sean O'Byrne |
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Irish Elm 1977-78 Photos from Gary Sheehan April 2007 |
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My trip on the "Irish Elm"
in 1970 by Charlie McCurdy
At the time I was a Deck
Cadet with Ocean Fleets (Blue Funnel and Elder Dempster Lines) and was
transferred to Irish Shipping in an exchange scheme between the two
companies. I must admit it was one of the most enjoyable trips of my sea
going career. Happy days.!
For your information the
voyage commenced in Antwerp on the 22nd March 1970 and finished again in
Antwerp on the 8th July 1970. As you can see from the photographs we
crossed the Atlantic with a full cargo of continental vehicles for the
U.S.A. including a deck cargo of U.S. Army wagons.
The army wagons and a couple
of hatches of cars were discharged in Savannah, and the remainder of the
cars discharged in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Using the empty
hatches that were discharged in Savannah we loaded a part cargo of
phosphate in Tampa for Chinhae in South Korea.
After Korea we loaded a full
cargo of Japanese cars for Europe in Nagoya and Yokosuka. Our voyage was
as follows. Outward :- Antwerp, Savannah, Tampa, Panama Canal, Los
Angeles, San Francisco and Chinhae in South Korea. Homeward :- Nagoya,
Yokosuka, Panama Canal, Amsterdam, Drammen in Norway, Aarhus in Denmark,
Bremmerhaven and Antwerp. All photos ©Charlie McCurdy-- January 2009 |
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Irish Elm 1974 Photos from John Garvey. (Additional info from Phil Smyth-Feb.2014) |
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2nd Mate Cyril Twomey and Engineer Phil Smyth check liner Irish Elm 1974 |
2nd mate Cyril Twomey shoots the sun Irish Elm 1974 |
Competition night officers bar Irish Elm 1974 |
ER Control room Irish Elm 1974 |
ME Fuel pumps Irish Elm 1974 | ||
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| C.McCURDY & D.HOPKINS | 1969 | 1969 | D.O'ROURKE & M.O'SULLIVAN | Elm on the suze canal on the
28th of june 1976. Joseph (Tiny) Lynch |
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| J.McCONNELL & WIFE WITH
D.O'ROURKE |
Gaillard Cut, Panama canal
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early '60s aboard IRISH ELM
Standing 1st. trip app. Wearing white cap is Boscoe Edwards
from Dublin.next Bill Heffernan Passage East then Bill Gunnip from
Cheekpoint Co. Waterford and "Chippy" Cahil from Dublin. "Lamptrimmer" |
This is the "IRISH ELM" early 60's (the sweepstakes runner) On the
hatch cover is Michael from Passage
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Eileen Roberts 21st. birthday March 10th. 1974 Photo from Willie Roberts |
Ronnie Dunne heads home fron the Elm Photo from Phil Smyth.
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IRISH ELM-M.MURPHY(SHALA) |
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Irish Elm passing Irish Rowan 1979. Pat O'Halloran here. "I was Chief Engineer on
the Irish elm when the photo of her at sea was taken. The year was
1979 and the Elm was on her way to Rotterdam drydock to be handed over
to the Greeks, two of whom where on board at the time. We were enroute
from Fredricia in Denmark having unloaded a cargo from New Orleans I
think but definitely the Gulf Of Mexico and it was early 1979." |
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 Irish Elm- Pat Collins, Jimmy Geary, Frank Mullin 1970. Erc Kealy |
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