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.

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

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.