Stories tagged "Ferry routes": 13
Stories
A Stewardess's Duties | Dyletswyddau stiwardes
Margaret Todd from Goodwick sat down with Ports, Past and Present to talk about her former work as stewardess on board the ferries linking Fishguard and Rosslare. She remembers her duties as stewardess, her colleagues and meeting her future husband…
St Columba, Saint and Ship | Sant Columba, Sant a Llong
One of the most fascinating and certainly the largest objects on display at the Museum is the Franta Belsky mural that once graced the Forward Lounge on the Holyhead ship MV St Columba.
The vessel was named after the sixth century Irish monk who…
A Very New Port
'Pembroke Dock' is an abbreviation of 'Pembroke Dockyard', the new name given to the location in 1817. The Royal Navy had built the dockyard and adjacent town three years earlier in 1814, initially calling it 'Pater Yard'. The sole purpose of the…