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Ordnance Survey 6" and 25" maps show a ferry running across the lake from the mouth of the river just downstream from Virginia: 25" map: arcg.is/qL58D0 Lots of info in a Facebook post here: www.facebook.com/Muntcomm/posts/information-on-the-lough-...

I see the Landing Stage on the 25", but can't get there with streetview. Here is a Bing aerial view. The 25" marks the ferry route, North-South across Lough Ramor. Streetview not great from the Southern side either. There's feck all on the southern shore, I can't imagine this was a commercial ferry, maybe for tourists?

Some history and a map of Lough Ramor ferry. www.facebook.com/Muntcomm/posts/information-on-the-lough-... It also includes names of ferrymen.

arcg.is/nmCXv on the 25"

From a random cached Facebook page (large grain of salt needed): However, in the 1821 Census, Michael Flinn from Coronagh, Munterconnaught was listed as the “ferryman of Lough Ramor”.​ ... We do know that when the land on which the town of Virginia is built was assigned to Captain John Ridgeway as part of the Plantation of Ulster in the early 17th century, there were conditions attached to the grant for the founding of a town, to include a school, a church, a market-place, and in addition, the establishment of a ferry service. The ferry service would connect Munterconnaught to Virginia.​ It was proposed that the town of Virginia be built at Ballaghanea but it was decided that it should be built at the narrowest point of the lake and therefore the shortest way to cross by boat. The ferry was an important amenity for the people of Munterconnaught for shopping or socialising in the local town of Virginia. It was a thriving ferry service where farmers took their goods to the market in Virginia and returned home with their groceries. On the Virginia side, the locals could enjoy the woods on the southern side of the lake by making the short boat trip there. The round trip was 2d. Two cottages, one on each side of Lough Ramor, were built around the middle of the 19th century. The cottage on the Munterconnaught side was for a gamekeeper while the Gate lodge along the Virginia lake shore and close to the ferry landing area was for a boatman or ferryman that operated the service. Many ferrymen names are remembered like an Englishman called Stephens, John Sweeney from Cork; a local man named Preston; John O’Boyle from Donegal, Peter Carrol and Jack Delaney from Mountnugent. The last man to operate the ferry crossing was a man called Matt Donohoe from Belturbet. According to Cavan County Council archives, a notice on the 21 May 1940 was made to the fact that Lord Headfort had sold Virginia lodge and demesne and had no further use for the Lough Ramor Ferry. However, he would not like to discontinue the Ferry without giving interested parties an opportunity to form a committee to operate it. The ferry service came to an end in the late 1950s. The road leading to Lough Ramor on the southern side is still known as the Boat Road.

Interesting history: www.heritagearchaeology.com.au/Douglas%20Mawson.htm Built and launched Bawley Point 11 April 1914 lost with all hands Gulf of Carpentaria 1923

Dale That is an interesting history.

Dale beachcomber australia wow fascinating! Tales of cannibalism...?!?! Utterly bizarre nla.gov.au/nla.news-article78992943 And the original reporter called it "Daniel Dawson". How unfortunate. :S

how would you get a list of the crew on board when it sank? I have just found out my grandfather was on this vessel when it went down.

tugboat1952 TROVE !! A quick newspaper search - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=ss+douglas+mawson+cre... - produced this very politically incorrect article which has a list of the crew at the end (into the next column) - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/187196549 Here they are - George F. Tune (master) Richard Shewring (mate) Robert D. Thompson (engineer) John Fraser (donkeyman) John Tully and Hector V. Little (firemen drivers) Robert Nixon (cook and steward) James Laird, Archie McNeill, Christian Neilsen, William Rowe, and William Nugent (able seamen) Maurice Giese (ordinary seaman) There were also on board as passengers Mr. and Mrs. Wlllett and their five children, who joined the ship at Normanton. Good luck with finding out more !

For a moment I thought (and hoped!) it might be Joshua Slocum on SPRAY, but no ...

Spray was a yawl, rather than the gaff ketch above.