3 Jul 2024, Wednesday

July 03, 2024

Prioritized Daily Task

Dan Truitt's 81st Birthday

Patrick Kelly's 20th Birthday

June Bank Holiday

Cohb:

—The Titanic Experience Museum-9:00. Be there at 8:45

☎ +353214814412

✉ info@titanicexperiencecobh.ie

Street parking is available in Cobh town and there is a car park at The Five Foot Way behind the train station or at Cobh Cathedral.

—Walking tour of Cohb-60-70 minutes-11:00-12:00

Meet at : Commodore Hotel, 4 Westbourne Cobh, Cork Pl, Kilgarvan

Get directions ›

Kinsale:

Kinsale city self guided tour,

Harbour cruise 1:00 and 2:00 cc accepted-be there 20 min. Early

and Scilly walk- 45 min. (Kinsale to Charles Fort) 10-5:00 -free day no tickets needed

Debbie was up early and I slept in until 6:45 am. I showered and we had prayer. Debbie cooked breakfast and afterward, we drove to Cobh a seaport and naval station, in County Cork, Ireland. It’s known as the Titanic’s last port of call in 1912. There were 2,240 passengers and crew of which more than 1,500 perished. A Titanic Experience Cobh is a themed attraction in the former White Star Line ticket office. I got a second-class ticket on the RMLS. Titanic for 45.000 pounds which was equal to about $18,235.47 today. for 7 days sailing from Queenstown, Ireland to New York, USA on 11th April 1912. I did not know that when the Titanic struck the iceberg Captain Edward J. Smith considered to be the best and most capable of all the sea captains in the world, had been persuaded to come out of retirement to make this maiden voyage of the Titanic, had ordered all first-class passengers to enter the lifeboats, an hour before the boat started to sink. It was cold and the people were uncomfortable and got tired of waiting and went back to their cabins or what they were doing before. The Capitan had canceled a practice drill for the passengers to man the lifeboats that had been scheduled earlier that day because he did not think it was necessary; he believed as did many others the Titanic was unsinkable. After the tour of the museum, we went on a walking tour of Cobh. In August 1849, Queen Victoria I and her husband, Prince Albert visited Cobh and was later renamed Queenstown, the first place she set foot on Ireland soil. It remained Queenstown until after the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922 when the town reverted back to the current name of Cobh.

It is also near Cobh where a German U-boat sank the RMS Lusitania on 7 May 1915, with many Americans on board. There is a monument to the men who help rescue those who survived and bring the bodies of those back who did not survive. The local people made hundreds of wood boxes to put the bodies in. They were buried in 3 mass graves in Cobh. This help pull America into WWI. After the war for Ireland's independence neither England nor Ireland did anything to change RNLI, Royal National Lifeboat Institution. It was established in Arklow, Co Wicklow, south of Dublin in 1826. They operate a 24 hour search and rescue service from 238 lifeboat stations around the UK and Ireland.

Debbie and I had some sparkling soda water at Rob Roy's Pub. It was named by the Irish owner who named it after the Scottish, Robert Roy MacGregor that was a Scottish outlaw, who later became a folk hero. He was born in 1671 in Perthshire and died, on December 28, 1734, at the age of 63 years, in Balquhidder, United Kingdom.

before leaving Cobh and going to Kinsale where we visited and saw the old fishing village and learned about the forts and their importance in defense of the port that had been built on reclaimed land from the sea. We had dinner at the White House Hotel's restaurant.

When we got back to the apartment we saw and talked to Vorinica and learned her husband's name is Maurice Kelleher. They have three sons and a younger daughter. Debbie and I took pictures of their horses and lamas.

Debbie and I had dessert, studied scriptures, and had prayer before going to bed.