Irish Naval Service
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The Naval Service is the maritime component of the Defence Forces of Ireland and is one of the three branches of the Irish Defence Forces. Its base is in Haulbowline, County Cork.
Naval Service personnel remove the body of a victim of Air India Flight 182 from LÉ Aisling which was sent to search for survivors on 23 June 1985
HMCS Malaspina of the same design as the Muirchu
M1 Irish motor torpedo boat
LÉ Deirdre, the first purpose-built ship commissioned by the Irish Naval Service
LÉ Róisín
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LÉ Róisín is the lead ship of her class of offshore patrol vessel in the Irish Naval Service. Commissioned in 1999, the ship's primary mission is fisheries protection, search and rescue, and maritime
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…Robinson. In the late 1990s, the government commissioned Appledore Shipbuilders to construct a new class of larger patrol vessels. In December 1999, LÉ Róisín was delivered to the Naval Service, followed in September 2001 by LÉ Niamh. LÉ Deirdre was decommissioned the same year. On 1 October 2005, An Slua…
The LÉ Róisín on patrol
Otobreda 76 mm bow gun of LÉ Róisin
LÉ Róisín moored at Dublin’s docklands, 2008.