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That'd be here, I reckon: www.google.ie/maps/@51.621496,-9.9656728,3a,75y,200.94h,9...

OSI: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,463874,542822,11,7 There's a gap in the 25", so we can't see what the barrier in the sea is, or whether there's a fish saltery there. Perhaps they're smuggling toffee in barrels.

derangedlemur Pulleen Harbour on the Beara Peninsula. How did you know!!??

Stuart The two figures are wearing distinctively west-cork caps, while the man is sporting a type of moustache common to the Castletownbere area. The barrels are of the rope tied type favoured to the west of Castletownbere over the more expensive iron bound examples used by the poshos to the east. More prosaically, it looks like west Cork, and a quick scan of the OSI does the rest. It took three or four goes, since I started in Glengarriff and searched west, so a certain amount of luck involved.

Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2017 via Willi Thiel Wonderful looking place ... a smuggler's delight.

Used by History Place www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/firstworldwar/austr-sie...

This appears to be the barrel segment (it was transported in three parts) of the Skoda 305 mm Model 1911 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skoda_305_mm_Model_1911. 8 were loaned to the German army in August, 1914 by the Austro-Hungarian Army for use in destroying Belgian fortifications at Liege and elsewhere. One account states that Austro-Hungarian soldiers operated these in Belgium. An extremely detailed, illustrated article on this weapon: www.landships.freeservers.com/305mm_morser_m11.htm

presumably related to the Vera Cruz coverage so frequently seen in LOC stream. The stacks of lumber and life jackets are strong indication s this is her being converted for troop transport query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40A1FF6355D13...

nudecowboy: Thanks for the New York Times article (May 10, 1914) which reports that the ship "City of Macon" was one of the fleet moving the Second Army Division from Texas City to Veracruz, Mexico.

When we last saw her, the "City of Macon" was being used in February, 1914, to transport the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team to its spring training quarters in Georgia:

USS Macona (ID # 3305) 1918-1919. Originally S.S. City of Macon (American Coastal Passenger Ship, later Freighter, 1903). Later renamed Macona S.S. City of Macon, a 5252 gross ton coastal passenger-cargo ship, was built in 1903 at Chester, Pennsylvania, for the Ocean Steamship Co. of Savannah, which operated a passenger and freight service between Savannah, Georgia, and New York. She was configured like many other coastal passenger ships of her era, among them her near-sister City of Savannah (ID # 4514), with a single smokestack, two raked pole masts, and a long, low superstructure extending from a bridge forward of amidships to the stern. In 1916 the ship was sold to the Barber Steamship Co., renamed Macona, and possibly reconfigured as a freighter by her new owner. Taken over by the Navy and commissioned at New York as USS Macona (ID # 3305) on 19 August 1918, she sailed in a convoy on 25 August with a cargo of 4,470 tons of general supplies, which she delivered to St. Nazaire, France, on 12 September. She was then assigned to service in European waters, carrying a cargo of potatoes from Ireland to France for the American Expeditionary Force. In late December Macona loaded a cargo of Navy stores, then moved to Cardiff, Wales, to bunker for the voyage back to the United States. She left Cardiff on 15 February 1919 but had to stop at the Azores for more fuel before arriving at Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 12 March. USS Macona was decommissioned and delivered to the Shipping Board on 25 March 1919 for simultaneous return to her owners. On 18 January 1920 S.S. Macona struck a rock and sank near Gotenborg, Sweden. In port, possibly when inspected by the Third Naval District on 19 August 1918. This relatively elderly former coastal passenger and cargo ship was in commission as a freighter from 19 August 1918 to 25 March 1919. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph from http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/id3305.htm

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picture location - not a good one.