The Clan Line steamers were based out of Newport, Glasgow and Liverpool and it was a name famous in merchant shipping. On October 15 1914, the Clan Grant was steaming 150 miles off Minikoi near the Maldive islands off the south-west coat of India. The Emden spotted her and captured her, however her cargo was not deemed to be useful enough and the Newport-based ship was sunk by gunfire. Often crews were less fortunate. In October 1916 the Newport trader SS Penylan was steaming off the coast of Algeria when it was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine U-39 when it was five miles west of Cape Bougaroni. The ship took two hours to sink and the crew were able to take to the life boats. They were eventually picked up by a French destroyer and all of her crew survived.
Bombing that killed Offaly teenager to feature on RTE Investigates
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In 1972, just three days after Christmas, a no-warning car bomb killed two teenagers and injured nine others in Belturbet Co.Cavan.
In a special documentary next Monday night, December 14, RTÉ Investigates uncovers a crippling lack of trust between police services north and south, questions the political will to bring those behind the Belturbet bomb to justice, and reveals new evidence that British security forces failed to act on credible information, allowing militant loyalists to operate freely in South Fermanagh.
On Thursday night, December 28, 1972, a Ford Escort from Enniskillen passed a garda checkpoint at Aghalane bridge, headed south for Belturbet, across the River Shannon, up Bridge Street past The Diamond before parking in Main Street across the road from Slowey’s chip shop. It was here the car bomb was primed and left waiting.
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British empire honour titles are “divisive” and “offensive”, according to Labour’s shadow education secretary.
Kate Green, who was made an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of her charitable work in the 2005 New Year Honours list, said there was no justification for “branding” the British system in colonial terms and has called for reform.
But the Conservatives have hit out at her remarks, arguing changing the name of the honours system would be an “act of cultural and historic vandalism”.
Many non-white people have turned down honours because of its association with the British empire and its history of slavery, including poet Benjamin Zephaniah, who rejected an OBE in 2003.
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