User:Lugnad/timeline

Below is the timeline of maritime events during the Emergency, (as World War II was known in Ireland). This period was referred to as The Long Watch by Irish Mariners. This list is of events which affected the Irish Mercantile Marine, other ships carrying Irish exports or imports, and events within Irish territorial waters.

Timeline
In this list, the nationality of non-Irish ships is given, the phrase "British-flagged" is used for ships which transferred from the Irish registry.

1939
{{timeline-item|{{start date|1939|September|11|df=y}}|The Irish-flagged tanker Inverliffey, Trinidad to Coryton with 13,000 tons of gasoline was shelled and sunk by U-38. Neither the Inverliffey nor U-38 would have been aware of the registry change.

{{timeline-item|{{start date|1939|October|4|df=y}}|U-35 lands survivors from Diamantes (Greek) at Ballymore, Dingle }}