[lugite 1 author=”Forde” book=”The Long Watch”/] [lugite 2 author=”Fisk” book=”In Time of War” page=”273″ quote=”“Up to four huge tricolours were painted on the sides of each ship together with the word EIRE in letters twenty feet high””/] [lugite 3 author=”Gleichauf” book=”Unsung Sailors” page=”115″ quote=”“… remembered what they had heard in training: never expect another ship… Continue reading Ireland’s Mercantile Marine during the Second World War