The extraordinary story of the Howth Gunrunning - RTÉ
2014年7月27日 · Hampered by a split in her main sail off the coast of Wales, Chotah reached the Kish Bank off the coast of Dublin on 1 August, nearly a week after the Howth landing.
Equally audacious: the Kilcoole gun-running – The Irish Times
2014年7月19日 · A week after the guns were landed at Howth, the Chotah approached the coast of Kilcoole and was met in darkness, south of the Kish lighthouse by the Nugget, a Howth-based trawler.
Sir Thomas Myles – Surgeon and Irish Volunteers Gun Runner …
Sir Thomas Myles's yacht 'The Chotah' was used in Kilcoole in 1914 for the 'other' gunrunning that took place. He was also responsible for saving many Volunteers lives in 1916. He was a surgeon at Richmond Hospital and many of the wounded men from the Church Street area owe their lives to him.
Howth gun-running - Wikipedia
The Howth gun-running (/ ˈhoʊθ / HOHTH) involved the delivery of 1,500 Mauser rifles to the Irish Volunteers at Howth harbour in Ireland on 26 July 1914. The unloading of guns from a private yacht during daylight hours attracted a crowd, and the authorities ordered police and military intervention. Despite this the Volunteers evaded the ...
Steam yacht - Wikipedia
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1914 Gun-running: Quietly into Kilcoole – Coast Monkey
The Kilcoole gun landing operation, however, was kept quiet. After the Kelpie split ways with the Asgard it was met by the Chotah, a yacht owned by Sir Thomas Myles, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons, off the Llyn Peninsula in Wales and offloaded her armament.
Shroud of secrecy as guns for Rising land in Kilcoole
The story of the Irish Volunteers smuggling guns and ammunition into Howth is widely known but the second landing at Kilcoole, by the Chotah, is one which has almost been forgotten in Irish...
Mo Montgomery - pameladebri.wixsite.com
The yacht ‘Chotah’ was loaned by Sir Thomas Myles to the triumvirate mission leadership of Michael the O’Rahilly, Erskine Childers and Sir Roger Casement.
Remembering Howth - Eolas Magazine
The Kelpie transferred its 600 guns to another yacht, the Chotah, which quietly landed them at Kilcoole, County Wexford, on the night of 1-2 August. Attention, though, quickly turned to the escalating crisis in Europe.
feniangraves.net
After the Kelpie split ways with the Asgard it was met by the Chotah, a yacht owned by Sir Thomas Myles, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons, off the Llyn Peninsula in Wales and offloaded her armament. The Chotah held on to the cargo while the Kelpie sailed across the Irish Sea acting as a decoy for the Asgard.