Innisfallen (ship)

Five served on the Irish Sea route between Cork and Fishguard, from 1896 onwards: two of these were war casualties whilst the remainder have been either scrapped or renamed and sold to new owners.

A ship named Innisfallen was built at Blyth, Northumberland, England, in about 1863.

She sank with the loss of eight lives in the English Channel in the vicinity of the Goodwin Sands in a storm at the end of November 1897, on a voyage from South Shields to Cowes.

The Innisfallen built in 1896 was torpedoed and sunk, without warning, by German U-boat UB-64 on 23 May 1918, 16 nautical miles (30 km) east of the Kish Light Vessel.

City of Cork Steam Packet Company, was taken over by the Coast Lines group.

Leaving Liverpool on 21 December 1940, she hit a mine off the Wirral shore near New Brighton, and sank.

Innisfallen sunk by a mine in the River Mersey , 21 December 1940, shown here as passengers escape on lifeboats .
(Oil by Kenneth King , Maritime Institute of Ireland ).
Innisfallen (1969–2004) arriving 1975 at Swansea