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Fastnet : Admiralty instructions

Abstract: File contains letters and telegrams from T. P. Murphy, Principal Keeper Fastnet. Included are details of: instructions from Admiralty to inform all British Ships that War has broken out (6 August 1914) ; instructions from Admiralty to inform all vessels proceeding to Queenstown (Cobh) to ask Old Head for the Swept Channel ; reporting Transports to War Signal Station Brow Head ; sighting of a possible submarine (May 1915) ; confidential Lloyd's Weekly Booklet to kept in Principal Keepers custody and destroyed by fire when next issue received.

In collection  War and Raid Files Collection

Resource description

Original version
Date created: –
Type of Resource
text
Physical description
2 files (44 p.)
17 x 11 cm
Numbering/sequence
Original file number(s):1914/729, 1914/1103.
Keywords
World War I; Fastnet Lighthouse (1854-present); submarine; mines (explosive); signal.
Languages
English  
Genre
Miscellaneous Documents
Subject
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations--Submarine   linked data (lcsh)
Mines (Military explosives)
Submarines (Ships)
Fastnet Rock Lighthouse (Co. Cork, Ireland)
Aids to navigation
Location
https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.ucdlib_300020
Location
Commissioners of Irish Lights . WR/1/20
Suggested credit
"Fastnet," held by Commissioners of Irish Lights. © Various copyright holders - contact UCD Digital Library. Digital content by University College Dublin, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.ucdlib_300020>
Record source
Descriptions created by staff of UCD Library, University College Dublin based on the finding aid created by Niamh Collins, The Commissioners of Irish Lights. — Metadata creation date: 2022-08-09

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