salteeislands

You've got it backwards.

Ah! the SS EKORBMEP at Cheekpoint with a dent in her nose A short time after 23rd February 1899.

SS Pembroke: She operated as a paddle steamer from 1880 to 1895; the following year returning to service with twin screws and new boilers, all this time on the Irish Sea. In 1916 Pembroke was transferred to work from Weymouth as a cargo boat but on 24 September she was attacked by a U-boat so the following January she was fitted with a gun for defence. She was sold for scrap in 1925

If this is at Cheekpoint, then it was her second - this timedeliberate - grounding after she hit the Saltees on 18th February 1899.

SS Pembroke aground at Cheekpoint, was apparently a thing. Edit: Too slow and not funny enough again.

A great photo. Looks like a bunch of birdwatchers on an expedition. Thanks.

Guessing it is 1912 from the nearby photos ... Ed. ... including one of Thomas Mason taking a picture - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000519901/HierarchyTree

the boat, is that a "birlinn" ? style

Ac article in the Wexford People of Wednesday 12 June 1907, in a section subtitled "A miserable night on Saltee", reports that a group of rabbit-shooters had recently been marooned for a night on the island - "a heavy fog cut them off upon desolate Saltee from all association or communication with the outside world", however they did find "the old disused farmhouse, once the residence of a hardy farmer who lived on the island". So no one (apart from the odd castaway) lived on the island in 1907. A Mr Martin Pierce, owner of the Mill Road Iron Works, fell ill as a result of the ordeal and died a few days later.

Sometimes Flickr is amazing! In 2007 via John Finn