SS Creteboom

Ballina, Co. Mayo By Damian Murphy The River Moy at Ballina is the permanent home of a vessel that has beguiled the observer ever since it first appeared there in the 1930s. Built of concrete, the SS Creteboom owes its origins to a steel shortage during the First World War. By 1917, accelerated war production ... Read more

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