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Thursday, 4th


May 2017 Cobh Museum Launches Anchors Aweigh Exhibition


by ALAN SHEEHAN & CLAUDIA SHANAHAN O’KEEFFE


Cobh Museum offi-


cially launched its new- est exhibition, Anchors Aweigh, last Friday, 28


April. The


During the last exhibition was


unveiled to the public for the first time at Cobh Museum last week, with Anchors Aweigh focus- ing on the United States Navy’s time in Queens- town from 1917-18.


two


years of World War I a total of 92 US ships were stationed at Cork Harbour, with the Navy building a number of facilities around the area including a sea plane station operated by the


US Naval Air Service at Aghada, a repair station at the naval dockyard on Haulbowline Island and a hospital at Whitepoint, west


of what is now


Cobh (formally Queen- stown). The exhibit will also focus on how the


US sailors spent their


leisure time in town and area.


Anchors Aweigh joins


other current exhibitions such as the Scuttling of the Aud 1916 and Lusi- tania: A Day in May. Cobh Museum is


housed within the former Presbyterian Church known as Scots Church is located along High Road and is a run on a not-for-profit basis. The museum, run on a not-for-profit basis, is staffed by a team of over


20 volunteers is open daily from April through to October. From Mon- day to Saturday the museum is open from 11am-1pm and 2-5pm and on Sundays 2.30-5pm.


from


• Elizabeth, Anne and Claire.


• Cdr. John Kavanagh (Naval Service-Retired), Hugh Tully (Commodore Naval Service) and Lt.Cdr Paddy Whitty (Museum Director and Naval Service-Retired).


• Lorraine and Sinead.


• Organisers; Maria Dinardi, Lt.Cdr Paddy Whitty (Museum Director and Naval Service-Retired)Alice McSharry, Valerie Morgan and Sinead Barry.


• Tony McKeown (President Cobh & Harbour Chamber) and David Bird.


• Tim McSweeney, Martin O’Driscoll and John O’Driscoll.


• Cllr. Cathal Rasmussen and Sean O’Loingsigh (Chairman of Cobh Museum).


• John Crone and George Jefferies.


• TD David Stanton, Hugh Tully (Commodore Naval Service) and Cllr. Cathal Rasmussen.


• Noirin Doyle, Yvonne Allen and Heather Bird.


• Deborah Baume and Alice McSharry. Tel: 021 463 8000 • Email: info@eastcorkjournal.ie • Web: www.eastcorkjournal.ie


• Paul and Jean Busteed and Lt.Cdr Paddy Whitty (Museum Director and Naval Service-Retired).


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