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Re: Secret operations at the West Coast of Ireland
Posted by:
mayhem
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Date: August 05, 2012 03:40PM
Thank you for your replies. So it was indeed the same submarine that landed Roger Casement, although under another commander (Raimund Weisbach).
And while we're at it:
And while we're at it:
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On the 16th April [1918] a German U-boat was sighted in the vicinity of the Kish lightship in Dublin Bay, and two men, named Robert and James Cotter, who were Sinn Feiners — one of them a brother-in-law of De Valera — were intercepted at 4 a.m. next morning in a sailing boat off Kingstown. They were prosecuted and convicted for violating Admiralty Regulations. There was reason to believe they were communicating with the submarine.
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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Secret operations at the West Coast of Ireland | mayhem | 08/04/2012 05:14PM |
Re: Secret operations at the West Coast of Ireland | Michael Lowrey | 08/04/2012 11:09PM |
Re: Secret operations at the West Coast of Ireland | Simon S. | 08/05/2012 08:46AM |
Re: Secret operations at the West Coast of Ireland | Simon S. | 08/05/2012 11:38AM |
Re: Secret operations at the West Coast of Ireland | mayhem | 08/05/2012 03:40PM |
Re: Secret operations at the West Coast of Ireland | Michael Lowrey | 08/05/2012 04:24PM |
Re: Secret operations at the West Coast of Ireland | mayhem | 08/05/2012 11:57PM |