Rocks, blocks and chocks
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From one of our oldest collections to one of our newest and a jump of approximately 100 years! This Tynan shot of Killybegs Harbour in 1976 is today's offering. A boat is high and dry and chocked up, a digger is at work on the foreshore and what appears to be an enormous block of concrete rises above the inevitable rocks on the seashore!
Photographers: Denis Tynan 1923 - 2010
Collection: Tynan Photographic Collection
Date: 14 May 1976.
NLI Ref: NPA TYN1070
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Photographers: Denis Tynan 1923 - 2010
Collection: Tynan Photographic Collection
Date: 14 May 1976.
NLI Ref: NPA TYN1070
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Swordscookie
The trawler doesn't look that big until you look at the size of the digger beside it. Even a small boat is much bigger looking out of the water.
abandoned railways
The boat is Venture SO 523 on a slipway. The "block" is a boatyard building. www.google.ie/maps/@54.6324935,-8.44514,3a,60y,87.73h,89....
cargeofg
Sligo registration on the trawler and digger looks like a Ford H-42 with that pivot arrangement on main Jib
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14 May 1976 was a Friday ...
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Rocks, blocks and chocks; but no sign of clocks ...
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Plenty in the wheelhouse Rev counters, Engine Hrs, Oil pressure, Engine temp. Just to confuse things there is a trawler in Killybegs(2016) SO706 called Father McKee and it has MC on its funnel.
O Mac
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/187095410@N06/] MD not MC catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000738062/MooviewerImg?mobile... D more than likely Doherty
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Droneview with Valkyries! - youtu.be/5XEaDnJxzAY via Mooney Boats who have just completed 40 years there. Who was there before? mooneyboats.ie/
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03 A much clearer image. I will amend note on highlight
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Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2014 via https://www.flickr.com/photos/7652024@N05/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/7652024@N05/13998981495/ Edit - this is the newer building beyond (see droneview above) but it is pretty darn close!
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia "I love the smell of Nalpalm in the morning" Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, (Robert Duval)
suckindeesel
The vertical pole in the foreground may be a marker for the 'Black Rock' which is submerged at high water.
O Mac
I got the following reply from a friend in Smellybegs. Hi Owen.the boat in question is the ‘venture’ belonging to Mick Doyle. He previously owned the Norwegian built wooden trawler called Marie Avril. He now owns the Paula and is retired. Mick is from Dublin but lives in Killybegs. She was built in Holland and had a partner boat called the John Karen belonging to Teddy OShea. They were probably taken in part exchange for new builds in Norway, Venture and the John Karen were pelagic trawlers.
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03 Explains the MD and nice to get the full story behind the boat. I knew someone would get its history. Ireland is a small place like Wales When you are in a particular trade everyone knows everyone else.I have a history story for one boat I do work on in Aberystwyth. Pictures of it and its fleet sisters will be going up on my stream as soon as we come through this Emergancy.
cargeofg
www.marinetraffic.com/en/photos/of/ships/shipid:290803/#f... Here is Paula in Killybegs and elswhere with a Dublin Reg
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04 On drone view clip it is submerged nearly high water or just on the ebb. Going off dark marks on shoreline rocks.
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/187095410@N06 Yes I see that, so a navigation marker rather than a mooring post
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04 Strong enough to moor to but you would be in trouble at low water. Nav /Hazard marker. Off shore mooring points normally have a orange bouy and if regularly used and or fee paid are marked with boat reg number.
Dr. Ilia
amazing capture