One of my closest friends A/Sea Desie Hayes who died on the MV Kilkenny in Dublin Bay 1991.
Mystery still surrounds the cause of a collision between two cargo ships at the entrance to Dublin Port on Thursday night. Conditions were excellent when the first news of the accident was reported at 10:20pm. The B&I-owned vessel MV Kilkenny capsized quickly and the rescue services went into action immediately. The Kilkenny had a crew of 14 and was returning with a cargo of containers from the Continent. Ten crew members were quickly rescued and another was recovered within an hour. During the night the bodies of two were found and the search for the remaining member of the crew continues.
The other ship, which was outward bound, was the German-owned MV Hasselwerder. Its bow was badly crushed but none of its crew was injured. Some members of the Kilkenny crew complained that the Hasselwerder failed to lower its lifeboats, causing them to remain in the water for twenty minutes when they might have been rescued in about three minutes. It was lifeboats from the B&I car ferry Leinster which picked up seven of the stricken crew. Those who died were named as Patrick Kehoe (49) of Wexford and David Harding (54) from Howth. The missing man is Desmond Hayes (29) of Dublin's North Strand.
The Kilkenny is lying on its side, half-submerged on a sandbank in Dublin Bay. It has lost a number of containers. One was known to contain toxic chemicals for the Asahi plant in Mayo but it remained on the deck and was quickly recovered. Other containers were found floating in the sea and towed into Dublin. One is lying on rocks near Howth and a search is on for others, thought to be afloat in the Irish Sea.
Here's to remembering Desie.
Mystery still surrounds the cause of a collision between two cargo ships at the entrance to Dublin Port on Thursday night. Conditions were excellent when the first news of the accident was reported at 10:20pm. The B&I-owned vessel MV Kilkenny capsized quickly and the rescue services went into action immediately. The Kilkenny had a crew of 14 and was returning with a cargo of containers from the Continent. Ten crew members were quickly rescued and another was recovered within an hour. During the night the bodies of two were found and the search for the remaining member of the crew continues.
The other ship, which was outward bound, was the German-owned MV Hasselwerder. Its bow was badly crushed but none of its crew was injured. Some members of the Kilkenny crew complained that the Hasselwerder failed to lower its lifeboats, causing them to remain in the water for twenty minutes when they might have been rescued in about three minutes. It was lifeboats from the B&I car ferry Leinster which picked up seven of the stricken crew. Those who died were named as Patrick Kehoe (49) of Wexford and David Harding (54) from Howth. The missing man is Desmond Hayes (29) of Dublin's North Strand.
The Kilkenny is lying on its side, half-submerged on a sandbank in Dublin Bay. It has lost a number of containers. One was known to contain toxic chemicals for the Asahi plant in Mayo but it remained on the deck and was quickly recovered. Other containers were found floating in the sea and towed into Dublin. One is lying on rocks near Howth and a search is on for others, thought to be afloat in the Irish Sea.
Here's to remembering Desie.
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