IRISH FIR

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IRISH FIR

Postby Dennis Maccoy » Sun Mar 10, 2019 7:41 pm

Irish Fir, completed at Dublin in 1956, heading downriver in May 1966.
Irish Fir May 1966A_1.jpg
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Re: IRISH FIR

Postby northeast » Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:07 am

In poorer shape as ARTA, photo by Harold Appleyard
ARTA1956.jpg
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Re: IRISH FIR

Postby magoonigal » Wed Mar 20, 2019 11:32 am

She was ARTA from 1969 until 1977.

Renamed KOTRONAS SKY in 1977, she suffered engine damage in December of the same year.
Repairs were not considered economic and she was broken up at Cartagena in June 1978.
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