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This was taken at Passage West.. The ship is the TSS Arvonia previously TSS Cambria having been renamed in 1919 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSS_Cambria_(1897)

We came on this armoured car before. Seen at Passage around the 7th August 1922. flic.kr/p/b8SQmD

it appears that there may be more "driving on planks" rather than lifting !

The crane is a Taylor & Hubbard vertical boiler steam crane. Running on the rails.

Óglaigh na hÉireann badge on the turret. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Defence_Forces_cap_badge

Previously (four years ago!) -

I think it is more likely to be Killing Time as in waiting about.

HOGW 138 is Wilson again, in front of the same window with another officer. Looks like the same time of day, cigarette in hand, thumb in his belt. I think it is the same day - that one is dated Oct 1922.

“Captain Rev. Denis J. Wilson Chaplain to the forces. Army Headquarters. Michael Barracks. Co. Cork” catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000535057

I'm inclined to agree with Niall McAuley that the title of this photo in the catalogue is more to do with waiting around. I know little about warfare, civil war or otherwise, but it strikes me it has ever been 95% hanging around / 5% frantic activity and terror. The titles that Denis J. Wilson gave to the photos in this Hogan-Wilson collection are not dispassionate cataloguer style at all, at all. This is from the press release that accompanied the NLI's 2010 exhibition, Witness to War...

Rev. Wilson composed titles for the photographs, and this text is in bold on the exhibition captions. Any amendments are noted in square brackets, but for the most part his text has not been changed. Rev. Wilson’s bias in favour of the Irish nationalists in the War of Independence, and subsequently for the Free State of the Civil War, can be clearly seen in his choice of captions ... Hogan may also have been biased, or he may have been acting from commercial interests as the newspapers were carefully censored by the Free State government during the Civil War...

There is a mention here of the following for May 3rd 1921: HMS Eglantine (Sloop) HMS Convulvulus (sloop) HMS Silene (Sloop) HMS Cicero (Sloop) HMT Ard Patrick ( Mersey Class, Naval Trawler) There was a glut of surplus warships, post-WW1. These four sloops , were among sixty of that type, being sold off from the Royal Navy. The Ard Patrick was an Admiralty trawler, also for sale. Some ships had actually been sold, when Republican forces decided to attack them at Caririgaloe, near Cobh. Armed men overpowered the civilian caretakers, and opened the seacocks on the vessels. The results were reported as ‘one vessel leaned heavily to port while another settled on the riverbed’ All vessels were sold by the end of the year.

The BMH has a an account of the incident from Michael Burke who was involved.

While the ships bell says "Cambria" this ship had been renamed "Arvonia" by 1921 flic.kr/p/eUQqr9

There is a second photo Hailing a passing vessel going up the river Lee to warn them of the danger of two sunken vessels which the notes claim is a "Photographic print (embossed with "W.D. Hogan, / 56 Henry St., / Dublin." lower left) of Free State soldiers (with their backs to the camera) on board the S.S. Lady Wicklow." This would seem to indicate that it was during the Civil War, and maybe a different incident to the one I mentioned above in 1921.

(I'm assuming that the S.S. Lady Wicklow reference is another misidentification, and that it is actually the Arvonia like in most of the other Hogan shots - as previously argued by O Mac .)