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Awnings out, Summer is back

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U.S.S. Constellation after a "very anxious and boisterous passage"

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  • Mike Grimes said:
    She was the last sail only warship designed and built by the U.S. navy and is still afloat as a museum ship in Baltimore, Maryland. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constellation_(1854) Interesting part of the Wikipedia article is: After returning to New York, she was modified to carry a large cargo of food and other supplies to Ireland for the relief effort for the 1879 Irish famine. To accommodate as much food as possible, some of the ship's guns were removed, along with some of her ballast. She was able to carry more than 2,500 barrels of flour and potatoes. She left the United States in March 1880 and arrived in Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland on 20 April, where she sent the food ashore, took on ballast, and returned to the United States, arriving in June.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    28 April 1880 was a Wednesday ...
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Mike Grimes beachcomber australia SNAP
  • Mike Grimes said:
    Some nice engravings here which lead me to believe the moody looking chap front and center is Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, also the Duke of Edinburgh. Would Captain Potter be the happy chappy to the left with the sword? www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nmusn/explor...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Read All About It! Via Trove ... " ... The American frigate Constellation, with supplies for the suffering Irish, arrived at Queenstown on the 20th ult. Her cargo was distributed at different stations on the south and west coast of Ireland by British gunboats. The Duke of Edinburgh visited the vessel on the 25th. Addresses were presented to the captain and officers by the Cork branch of the Land League, the people of Queenstown, and by the Nationalists. Captain Potter refused to receive the address of the people of Queenstown until the political passages were expunged. His wishes were complied with. He received the address of the Nationalists, with the name of Doran at the head of the list of signers, on the assurance that it contained nothing of a political nature, but it concluded with the words, "God save Ireland." Captain Potter, on reading it, was taken by surprise, and curtly replied, "Thank you," which disappointed the deputation. After some opposition, in consequence of the famine-stricken condition of Ireland, the citizens of Queenstown decided to give a banquet to the officers of the frigate. The Cork Yacht Club gave a luncheon to the Duke of Edinburgh on the 26th, at which Captain Potter was present. The officers of the frigate were also honoured on their visit to Dublin; an arch of flags, in which the stars and stripes predominated, was thrown across the street in front of the Mansion-House. Captain Potter was presented with the freedom of the city. ..." From - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/160133841?searchTerm=c...

"B" Company of the Irish Volunteers from Cork.

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    “The Irish Volunteers was a paramilitary organisation formed in November 1913. It was set up in response to an article by Eoin MacNeill in the nationalist newspaper, An Claidheamh Soluis. The article called on nationalists to arm themselves in order to achieve Home Rule.

    With the advent of the First World War, there was a split in the Irish Volunteers. This was because the leader of the Nationalist Party, John Redmond, called on all Irish Volunteers to support the British war effort. Those who agreed with Redmond became the National Volunteers. Those who did not want to support the British in the war remained the Irish Volunteers, many of whom eventually took part in the 1916 Rising”

    "the first item on the agenda of any Irish organisation is the split"
    - Brendan Behan
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Great to see there is a Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy in Company B ...

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  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia I was wondering which of you would suggest this!
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The catalogue says this is September 1914, the same month the Volunteers split over support for WW1
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley Missed September. Mea culpa!