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Six Wexford men lost with sunken battleship Ttaking 570 of the 700-strong crew to the bottom including her commanding officer.
HE SINKING of the battleship Goliath was a terrible blow to County Wexford with the single largest death death from any naval action during the war to hit the county. From March 1915, she was part of the Dardanelles Campaign, and remained in support of the landings at Gallipoli in April.
On 13 May, 1915, Goliath was sunk in Morto Bay off Cape Helles by two torpedoes fired by the Turkish torpedo boat destroyer Muavenet-i Milliye, which was manned by a combined German and Turkish crew, Six Wexford men went down with the battleship when she was sunk while supporting the ill-fated Gallipoli landings. The Wexford dead from HMS Goliath were: Michael Allen, New Ross; William Barron, Ballyhack; Patrick Kavanagh, Kildermott, Ballymoney; Michael Meyler, Wexford; William Dempsey, Blackwater and Patrick Murphy, Fethard.
THE SINKING of the battleship Goliath was a terrible blow to County Wexford with the single largest death death from any naval action during the war to hit the county.
Six Wexford men went down with the battleship when she was...