SS Lady Wicklow

SS *Lady Wicklow*
	Free State officers disembarking from Lady Wicklow at Passage West in 1922
History
Owner	City of Dublin Steam Packet Company (1890–1924), then British and Irish Steam Packet Company
Launched	1890
General characteristics
Type	Steamship
Displacement	1,000 tons
Length	262 ft (80 m)
Beam	34 ft (10 m)

SS Lady Wicklow was a steam-powered ferry built in 1890 in Belfast for the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. She was 262 feet long and had a beam of 34 feet.

During Irish Free State offensive of the Irish Civil War in July and August 1922 the Irish Free State used her as a troopship,[1] firstly to transport 450 officers and men to Fenit, the port of Tralee[2] and then with TSS Arvonia to take troops from Dublin to Cork.[1]

Sources

McIvor, Aidan (1994). A History of the Irish Naval Service. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. pp. 44–48. ISBN 0-7165-2523-2.
Harrington, Niall (1992). Kerry Landing. Dublin: Anvil Books. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-947962-70-8.

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