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The W.M. Barkley

Off the Kish Bank, Dublin Bay

Guinness's first ship, sunk by a U-boat full of stout.

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When
12 October 1917
Where
53.3200, -5.8900
Group
Shipwrecks

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Seen from the coast at Dalkey or Howth on a clear day, the Kish lighthouse marks the area.

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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