Other Ships Named Irish Oak
In 1949, Irish Shipping Limited acquired a new Irish Oak (Official Number 174596). Built for ISL by J. Readhead and Sons Ltd., South Shields; Bill Norton complained that it was to be British built. It would be immortalised in Frank McCourt’s book “’Tis”. In 1967 she was sold to Proverde Shipping of Greece and renamed Vegas. In 1979, en route from Piraeus to Vietnam, she ran aground near Jeddah, was re-floated but sold for breaking up.
In 1973, Irish Shipping Limited acquired another Irish Oak, a bulk carrier motor ship with a diesel engine. Irish Oak, 16,704 GRT, 25,649 DWT, was in service with Irish Shipping until 1982.
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