Militaria Archive

National Maritime Museum of Ireland, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin

A collection of photographs taken at the National Maritime Museum of Ireland, Old Mariners Church, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin. Included are some pictures of the KV Merlogue exhibition, the Baily Optic, the Neutral Ireland maritime oil paintings (by Kenneth King) and some of the Irish Naval History displays. This museum re-opened in June 2012 after a 6 year refurbishment.

Part of the display dealing with the MV Kerlogue, an Irish Emergency (WW2) era ship which was subjected to a sustained attack by Polish pilots of the RAF (despite being a clearly identified neutral) and also hit by a German mine. The MV Kerlogue and her crew went on to rescue men from both the Allied and German side during the war. The Wild Rose of Liverpool on 2nd April 1941 and most notably on 29 December 1943 the Kerlogue rescued 168 Kriegsmarine sailors of the German Destroyer Z27 & torpedo boats T25 and T26. Refusing German requests to put the men ashore in Brest and also refusing British requests to land the survivors at Land's End, the captain put the men ashore at Cobh and they were interned for the rest of the war in the Curragh, internment camp.
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