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2 unusual facts about Irish patrol vessel Muirchú


Irish patrol vessel Muirchú

She was later used to transport the British auxiliary troops known as Black and Tans around the coast when many of the roads in Ireland were rendered impassable by Irish forces in the War of Independence.

Muirchú was sold to Hammond Lane Foundry by Marine Service, and while on passage to Dublin on the 8th May, 1947 she sank off the Saltee Islands



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