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  Irish Larch 1941-49 IRISH LARCH(2) 1956-68. IRISH LARCH(3)1973-84.  

Irish Larch Sydney Harbour Ist. Jan 1977. T.Dunne
 





Irish Larch 1964
Cormac Lowth (Sept.2010)		  
3rd. sept '1959
Irish larch,
 liverpool 		 








"Chippy" Cormac Lowth shaping a piece of iron at his forge on the 'Irish Larch' in the Indian Ocean in 1964.  A bit of a risky business in hindsight given the bare flesh and the hot coals.  The impetuosity of youth.
1959/60
Photos from Aiden Forde		 Irish Larch 1959
Back row: Paul McCarty(Cork). Charlie Austen, Tom 'blacker' Healy, Gerry Doyle 'Dub',
2nd row; Aiden Forde (Arklow), Noel Doyle 'Dub', Pascal Allen 'Dub', Willie O'Brien (Youghal),
1st row; Ollie Grace (Arklow),  ?, ?, Petie Breen 'Dub'
1960
Photos and comments from Tony Clements

New Orleans , October 1960.

(l to r): Tony “Clem” Clements apprentice, Bob Lawlor (electrician?).

At Sea, Gulf of Mexico , October 1960.

John Ryan (apprentice) untangling his wireless aerial

Corpus Christi , November 1960.

(l to r): Jimmy Tallon, “Scouser” (name unknown), “Lamps” (name unknown) and Tony “Clem" Clements.

Heavy weather in the North Atlantic , bound UK , November 1960.

(l to r): “Scouser”, John Ryan, Bosun (name unknown) and Jimmy Tallon (outside the entrance to the apprentices’ accommodation).

 

Heavy weather in the North Atlantic , bound UK , November 1960. Checking the lashings on a deck cargo of empty bourbon barrels. They were for use by the Scottish whisky industry.

(l to r): Chippy (name unknown), Jimmy ……..? and Peter ……..?

 
             


Please thank both Tony Clements for his article covering ISL ships and voyage log.  It about sums it up perfectly for all us ISL Apprentices,, just a great job. Eddie Duffy, well as soon as I saw the photos I remembered him too as so many faces start to recall from those days.  
Thank goodness someone was taking photos; the record is the story of all of us.  Having been involved heavily in training international crews how true we all did things so well without very much paper and a lot of solid knowledge passed on by officers and crew. 
Yes bilge cleaning. I was just the size for that and cleaned every bilge in the "Irish Elm" on her maiden voyage and my first trip with ISL.
 
Lovely after just coming from Grey's shipyard!! Oh well I guess it made me a better officer when it became my turn to give the orders!  
My last ship before retiring I had 600 crew and 35 nationalities so very different days, orders in four languages.  Good watch to all hands, thanks again to all sending photos to Aiden.
We figure the other Apprentice is Willy Glynn. The Apprentices that trip were Billy Beirne of Wicklow, my self Waterford/Dublin, Jimmy Rickard of Howth (lost at sea as Master, see Howth harbor memorial) and I believe Willy Glynn??  Colm Lawless was promoted to Master and Billy became the Third Mate.  Capt. Glanville had been Master and when he left everybody moved up one rank leaving an open Third Mate berth. Best regards and good watch,
CAPT. D. Peter Boucher, MN (Ret.)
Maritime Affairs Consultant & Marine Sciences Instructor

Irish Larch 
1956-1957

Photos from Eddie Duffy

 

Photos from Gerry Farrell
1975
   

Crossing the line 1975

        
Photos from R/O Tim O'Connell
1977		 Photos from R/O Tim O'Connell
1977		 Photos from R/O Tim O'Connell
1977		 Christmas day 1976
John Buggy, 2nd.cook?,  galley boy?, Bennie Dorgan, Richie Pullen, Jim Byrne, Bertie Coogan.		 New Years day, Sydney, Australia 1977 
Eamonn Frampton.
             
1958/9 
from Michael Mills
 

 

Irish Larch, Departing BC for Ireland 1981

This is the Irish Larch fully laden with Canadian lumber products and bound for Dublin.
I remember that just prior to sailing while we were testing the bridge equipment the Bridge Control system failed which meant we could not stop the propeller without emergency shut down. The end result was that we almost pulled the fragile wooden dock into the bay and we had to steer the vessel by hand all the way down the Pacific and across the Caribbean and Atlantic oceans. Jim Whelan was on the  bridge with me when that happened.

Capt.Paul Reid.






Irish Larch 1981

Irish Larch in drydock at Ulsan South Korea 1982 Josephine and Brendan Kealy in the dock.

Erc Kealy

P.Parkes 1976
             

Aboard the IRISH LARCH in Port Said 1964, waiting to go through the Suez
Canal, Left to right, Boatman, Johnney Linke A.B., boatman, Peter
Rossiter, Luke Wadden, Noel Tobin, Paddy Chandler, Willie Brady, Tiny
Lynch, E Byrne, Cormac Lowth, chippy, boatman. 
The boat and crew were hoisted aboard to run the mooring lines in case the ship had to tie up in a lay-bye when going through the Canal
1970
1964		  
             

 

The baldies on the IRISH LARCH 1964 are, left to right, Paddy "Eyepole"
O'Brien, donkeyman. E.Byrne, deckboy, Luke Wadden, E.D.H. Barber John
Tone, donkeyman, Tom Mc'Clean, O.S. Willy "Jazzer" Brady, O.S. Frank
Stubbs, A.B. "Eyepole" was so called because he had an eye-shaped scar
in the middle of his forehead. 
 

 

 Hanging from the awnings on the same trip
are E.Byrne, deckboy, Frank Stubbs, A.B. Jazzer Brady, O.S. Luke Wadden,
E.D.H. Noel Tobin, Donkeyman, Peter Rossiter, Messman, Paddy Chandler,
E.D.H.. Tom O'Brien, Apprentice is in the background.		   The IRISH LARCH in the Med. 1964. Peter Tallon, A.B. Cormac Lowth, Chippy,E.Byrne, deckboy, Tiny Lynch, OS . The funnel is painted differently as we were on Charter, I think to Pakistani Shipping Lines    

 

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