File 16 - Lighthouses and shipwrecks

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UGA P120/3/3/9/3/16

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Lighthouses and shipwrecks

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  • 13/07/1987-23/01/1990

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1 folder (c. 50pp)

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Copy letter from Robinson to the Commissioners of Irish Lights, seeking information on lighthouses at Lion Point, Killeen Point, Kiggaul Bay, Croaghnakeela Islands, Inishnee in Roundstone Bay, Slyne Head, Inishbofin, Inishlyon, and Cleggan Point. Response enclosing photocopies from the Admiralty List of Lights and a short history of Slyne Head (13 July 1987). A newspaper cutting from the Connacht Tribune, 31 April 1990 on the closing of the Slyne Head Lighthouse, with accompanying picture.

Correspondence from the Public Records Office in Kew enclosing information on the records available relating to shipwrecks, the operational records of the Royal Navy (1660-1914), and the records of HM Coastguard. Later correspondence between Tim Robinson and Frank [likely to be Francis Keaney] enclosing transcribed research from the PRO on the Royal Oak and shipwrecks taken from captain's logs (1989-1990).

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      01/09/2023
      16/07/2025

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