A History of the Irish Naval Service.
Author: McIVOR, Aidan.
Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006. 256 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.
“This book chronicles the important role of Ireland’s seaborne military forces in the Civil War and in the Emergency and explains the rebirth of the Irish Naval Service in the past two decades. The Irish Naval Service has come a long way from 1970 when Ireland’s fleet consisted of one disarmed World War II corvette. Today, in co-operation with the Irish Air Corps, it operates modern patrol ships, helicopters and maritime patrol aircraft, comparable to those in service with the United States Coast Guard, and is a key element in the EC’s fishery protection force. Irish Naval Service ships are no longer confined to the home waters but regularly visit overseas ports, transport military supplies to the Irish UN troops stationed abroad and patrol off Canada’s eastern seaboard in accordance with the requirements of the North Atlantic Fisheries Organisation. It is also playing an increasingly vital role in drug interdiction.”
ISBN: 0716525232
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