&sq=&lang=&file=File:StateLibQld_1_150259_Cymric_(ship).jpg) Cymric
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Cymric |
| Builder | William Thomas and Sons |
| Launched | 1893 |
| Ireland | |
| Owner | Captain Richard Hall of Arklow |
| Acquired | 1906 |
 United Kingdom | |
| Acquired | c.1915 |
 Ireland | |
| Owner | Halls of Arklow |
| Acquired | c.1919 |
| Fate | Vanished with all hands in 1944 during World War II |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Iron barquentine |
| Tonnage | 228 grt |
| Length | 123 ft (37 m) |
| Beam | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
| Draught | 10 ft 8 in (3.25 m)[1] |
| Propulsion | Sail, Auxiliary motor fitted in World War I |
| Sail plan | Three masted |
Cymric was a British and Irish schooner, built in 1893. She joined the South American trade in the fleet of Arklow, Ireland, in 1906. She served as a British Q-ship during the First World War; she failed to sink any German U-boats, but did sink a British submarine in error.[2]
After the war, she returned to the British and, later, the Irish merchant service. In Ringsend, Ireland, she collided with a tram, her bowsprit smashing through the tram's windows.[3] In 1944, during the Second World War, sailing as a neutral, she vanished without trace with the loss of eleven lives.
- ^ Forde 1988, p. 68
- ^ "The Cymric in Peace and War (The extraordinary story of a small ship acquired by the Royal Navy as a Q-Ship during WWI and achieved notoriety by colliding with a tram in Dublin and sinking one of its own submarines)". Medal Society of Ireland. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
- ^ Murphy, Francis J (December 1979). "Dublin Trams (1872–1959)". Dublin Historical Record. 33 (1). Old Dublin Society: 2–9. JSTOR 30104169.
the unique accident which occurred at Ringsend in 1928 when a D.U.T.C. tram was in collision with a ship The Arklow schooner, Cymric