SS Lady Wicklow explained

-- commercial vessels -->	+SS Lady Wicklow Ship Image: Major General Ennis (with Thompson gun) and Comdt. McCreagh or McCrea (21840621989).jpg Ship Caption: Free State officers disembarking from Lady Wicklow at Passage West in 1922 Ship Owner: City of Dublin Steam Packet Company (1890–1924), then British and Irish Steam Packet Company Ship Builder: Blackwood & Gordon, Port Glasgow Ship Yard Number: 230 Ship Launched: 28 March 1895 Ship Identification: Official number 104963 Ship Fate: Scrapped 21 August 1948 Ship Type: Steamship Ship Tonnage: , Ship Length: 262feet Ship Beam: 34feet

SS Lady Wicklow was a steam-powered ferry built in 1895 in Port Glasgow for the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. She was 262 feet long and had a beam of 34 feet. She was scrapped in 1948.^[1]

During Irish Free State offensive of the Irish Civil War in July and August 1922 the Irish Free State used her as a troopship,^[2] firstly to transport 450 officers and men to Fenit, the port of Tralee^[3] and then with TSS Arvonia to take troops from Dublin to Cork.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wicklow . Scottish built ships . 24 June 2022.
2. Book: McIvor, Aidan . 1994 . A History of the Irish Naval Service . Dublin . Irish Academic Press . 0-7165-2523-2 . 44–48.
3. Book: Harrington, Niall . 1992 . Kerry Landing . Dublin . Anvil Books . 978-0-947962-70-8 . 72.