The sinking of the RMS Leinster and the war at sea
Recorded at the National Maritime Museum, Haigh Terrace, Dún Laoghaire
7 October 2018
Just before 10am on 10 October 1918, east of the Kish Bank, two torpedoes fired by the German submarine UB-123 struck the 2,640-ton packet steamship RMS Leinster, en route to Holyhead, causing her to sink rapidly; over 500 lost their lives, out of a total of over 800. It was sadly ironic that only a few days...
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Oct 11, 2018