SS Lady Wicklow

SS Lady Wicklow was a steam-powered ferry built in 1890 in Belfast for the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. She was 262 feet long and had a beam of 34 feet.

SS Lady Wicklow
Free State officers disembarking from Lady Wicklow at Passage West in 1922
History
Owner: City of Dublin Steam Packet Company (1890–1924), then British and Irish Steam Packet Company
Launched: 1890
General characteristics
Type: Steamship
Displacement: 1,000 tons
Length: 262 ft (80 m)
Beam: 34 ft (10 m)

During Irish Free State offensive of the Irish Civil War in July and August 1922 the Irish Free State used her as a troopship,[1] firstly to transport 450 officers and men to Fenit, the port of Tralee[2] and then with TSS Arvonia to take troops from Dublin to Cork.[1]

Sources
  1. McIvor, Aidan (1994). A History of the Irish Naval Service. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. pp. 44–48. ISBN 0-7165-2523-2.
  2. Harrington, Niall (1992). Kerry Landing. Dublin: Anvil Books. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-947962-70-8.


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