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School: Glasthule (St Joseph's Boys)

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Glasthule, Co. Dublin
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P. Ó Cuinneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0796, Page 138

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  1. The Wreck of the Leinster

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    On the 18th of October in the year 1917 at 8.45.A.M. the mail-boat was travelling from Dún Laoghaire to Holyhead, was on her course to Holyhead carrying troops, when she was torpedoed, twenty minutes after leaving the "Kish", and sank fifteen minutes after being hit. Nearly all the third class travellers were drowned. Mr. O'Toole the stoker was scalded to death when the boiler burst over him. Billy Maher a local man, saved a Mrs. B. Douglas and another woman and held them on his back until he was exausted, and was picked-up by a boat. When in hospital Mrs. B. Douglas asked for the person who had saved her.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Liam Stanley
    Gender
    Male