{"id":209547,"date":"2025-12-25T01:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T01:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209547\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T01:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T01:59:09","slug":"hundreds-gather-to-mark-130th-anniversary-of-15-men-who-drowned-on-dun-laoghaire-lifeboat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209547\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds gather to mark 130th anniversary of 15 men who drowned on D\u00fan Laoghaire lifeboat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people gathered at D\u00fan Laoghaire Harbour to remember all those lost at sea and, in particular, a lifeboat crew who perished on Christmas Eve 130 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>On December 24th, 1895, the Finnish barque SS Palme ran aground in gale-force winds in Dublin Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The Kingstown No 2 Lifeboat, named Civil Service No 7 went to its aid, however all 15 men on board the lifeboat perished.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"635\" width=\"953\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hundreds-gather-to-mark-130th-anniversary-of-15-men-who-drowned-on-dun-laoghaire-lifeboat.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1845381 size-full aligncenter fixed-width-container\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Attendees in D\u00fan Laoghaire today. Photo: Cormac Devlin<\/p>\n<p>The lifeboat was violently capsized by mountainous waves and high winds, failing to right itself as designed.<\/p>\n<p>The volunteers, including Coxswain Alexander Williams and his father Henry who were local men lost their lives in sight of shore.<\/p>\n<p>A second lifeboat also capsized but all its crew survived; the Palme crew was rescued days later.<\/p>\n<p>The disaster led to the creation of the Kingstown Life-Boat Disaster Fund and is honored yearly with ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>Former RT\u00c9 Liveline host and broadcaster Joe Duffy read an account of the disaster, published at the time of the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>William Byrne performed the \u2018Ballad of the Palme,\u2019 before wreaths were placed at sea off the East Pier by the RNLI D\u00fan Laoghaire Lifeboat.<\/p>\n<p>Local Fianna F\u00e1il TD Cormac Devlin who attended the ceremony added: \u201cAr dheis D\u00e9 go raibh a n-anamacha\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of people gathered at D\u00fan Laoghaire Harbour to remember all those lost at sea and, in particular,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-209547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}