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Ship off Lambay

QOTSA90 · 2009-10-26 18:58:33

Theres a fairly big Naval looking ship off the NE side of the island, its been there for about 3 days now. Anyone know what its doing out there?

26-10-2009 6:58pm

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Theres a fairly big Naval looking ship off the NE side of the island, its been there for about 3 days now. Anyone know what its doing out there?

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#2 26-10-2009 8:02pm

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Hope we are being invaded by somebody nice with loads of money !

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#3 27-10-2009 12:31pm

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was looking at it yesterday with a spotting scope, looks to me like a fisheries protection vessel taking shelter from the westerly winds.

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#4 27-10-2009 3:03pm

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It's probably there in connection with Live Surface to Air Firing Practices, Gormanston Air Defence Range. They stooge about up there quite a bit. Anything look familiar http://www.military.ie/naval/flotilla/index.htm ?

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#5 27-10-2009 3:05pm

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Yeah Dyflin, all of them, because I havent gotten a good look at it, just what I can see with the naked eye.

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#6 27-10-2009 7:09pm

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peacock class by the looks of it

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#7 27-10-2009 8:58pm

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