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SS Lady Wicklow

Used as a troopship by the Irish Free State From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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SS Lady Wicklow was a steam-powered ferry built in 1895 in Port Glasgow for the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. She was 262 feet long and had a beam of 34 feet. She was scrapped in 1948.[1]

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During Irish Free State offensive of the Irish Civil War in July and August 1922 the Irish Free State used her as a troopship,[2] firstly to transport 450 officers and men to Fenit, the port of Tralee[3] and then with TSS Arvonia to take troops from Dublin to Cork.[2]

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