A small fishing schooner.

The following are Arklow Schooners

Name Built in Arklow left Arklow Demise Fate builder owner width=33%|Career Notes
Agnes Craig
88705
1884 1912 1952 1952 broken up Ferguson & Baird, Connah's Quay Kearon & Tyrrll    
Antelope
 
1885 1898       Wexford Dockyard Company L O'Toole Traded with Black Sea and with Newfoundland


Laid up 1930, Reactivated 1939

Last ship built in Wexford
Cymric
 
1893 1907 1944 1944 vanished with all hands, en route to Lisbon W Thomas of Amlwch R Hall   Q-ship in WWI
de Wadden
 
1917 1922 1961;     Waterhuizen, Holland     Last Arklow-owned Sailing schooner
Gaelic
 
1898 1923 1952 1952 Lost on Frenchman's Rock, Melmore Head, Donegal       Q-ship in WWI
Happy Harry
 
1894 1921              
Harvest King
 
                 
Invermore
 
                 
James Postlethwaite
 
                 
JT&S
 
                 
Mary B Mitchell
 
                 
ME Johnson
 
                 
Venturer
 
                 
William Ashburner
 
                 
Windermere
 
                 

Rest

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Ardmore carrying 500 cattle and 500 pigs from Cork to Fishguard struck a mine and sank. 20 crew and 4 drovers lost 12 Nov 1940 Oil painting by Kennneth King National Maritime Museum of Ireland


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Food consumption, per capita, in Calories[1]
year Ireland Britain France Germany
1934/38 3,109 3,042 2,714 2,921
1946/47 3,059 2,854 2,424 1,980



References

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  1. ^ Food and Agricultural Organisation, Draft Report: European Programmes of Agricultural Reconstruction and Development (Washington 1948), pages: 47-51, Table 9.