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RMS Leinster

Off Dublin Bay

The worst disaster in the Irish Sea, a month before the war ended.

The mail boat RMS Leinster was sailing from Dún Laoghaire to Holyhead, full of soldiers and civilians, when a German submarine torpedoed her. More than 500 people died, the worst loss of life ever in the Irish Sea.

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When
10 October 1918
Where
53.3300, -5.8200
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

The anchor memorial is on the seafront at Dún Laoghaire.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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