On 10 October 1918, while sailing from Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire), County Dublin to Holyhead, Wales, the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company ship R.M.S. Leinster was torpedoed and sunk in the Irish Sea by UB-123. Over 500 people died (the exact total will probably never be known) in the greatest ever loss of life in the Irish Sea.

Casualties included crew men and women from Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire) and Holyhead, postal workers from Dublin, civilians from Ireland and Britain, soldiers, sailors airmen and nurses from Ireland, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. Among those lost were nineteen year old Josephine Carr from Cork, the first Wren to be killed by enemy action and fifteen year old Alfred Curzon White King the nephew of Newspaper Magnate Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliff.

Background to the sinking can be found on the website www.rmsleinster.com Detailed information can be found in my book "Torpedoed! The R.M.S. Leinster Disaster."

Philip Lecane

The Commemorative stamp from last year is still available from An Post. See this link.

http://www.anpost.ie/AnPost/News+and+Infor...MS+Leinster.htm

Peter

Remembering Lt-Col Charles Harold Blackburne DSO and his children Peter and Beatrice, lost in the Leinster incident.
D

James Birch, Westmoreland Hussars

1900 - 1918

Not Forgotten.

Remembering all those who perisdhed and Lieutenant Anchitel Edward Fletcher BOUGHEY, of the 8th Rifle Brigade, son of The Reverend A.H.P. Boughey, who died on the Leinster.

Andy

A local man of the Westmorland & Cumberland Yeomanry was on board and was drowned. Years later (1927) there was a claim made on behalf of his widow by the British Legion. This was denied because he "served in Ireland only."

This struck me as rather parsimonious stance, considering the man was a serviceman and lost his life in action. I don't know what the precise award criteria for the BWM were but I do wonder whether someone made a mistake on that occasion.

Andy.

Remembering.

Thank you for the freedom that I enjoy.

RIP

Scottie.

The Leinster and all who were lost with her on 10th October 1918 - R I P

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Peter

I guess you learn something new every day.

I never knew about this tragedy that also involved the loss of fellow countrymen & women.

We owe them for our freedom and this should not be deminished by time !!!!

Tony

Age Shall Not Weary Them,
Nor the Years Condemn,
At the Going Down of the Sun
And in the Morning,
We Will Remember Them.

Remembered with Honour and Respect
John