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Eventbrite - National Maritime Museum presents SS Isolda: Censorship, Secrecy and Grief in Emergency Ireland - Thursday, 16 December 2021 - Find event and ticket information.
The crew died after a German aircraft released its bombs on the ship, having circled the Isolda three times
Loss of Six Dun Laoghaire Men in German Bombing of Lightship Remembered 21st December 2020 Artist Kenneth King's depiction of a German bomber over the lightship Isolda off the Wexford coast on December 19th, 1940. Six Dun Laoghaire men died and 22 survived Six Dun Laoghaire mariners never came home for Christmas 80 years ago, when their lightship was attacked and sunk by a German bomber aircraft off the Wexford coast. Now, the grand-daughter of one of those lost has appealed to other relatives of the Isolda fatalities to make contact for research she is undertaking into their lives. “The...