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An Irish Sea ferry crew member from Stena Line is self-isolating after testing positive for coronavirus.

Company bosses said the worker had no symptoms when they left the Stena Horizon on Wednesday, but later tested positive for Covid-19.

The ropax ferry's key Irish Sea route is between Holyhead and Dublin. (Afloat adds the ropax is providing cover having been replaced from the Rosslare-Charbourg route by relief ferry Stena Vinga). 

The Stena Horizon, which can carry up to 900 passengers and 200 cars, has recently been operating the route alongside the Stena Estrid, due to a continuing refit of the Stena Adventurer (at Harland & Wolff, Belfast). 

More on the story from NorthWalesLive here 

In addition for further impacts of Covid-19 on the Ferry sector can be read from a report released today by the IMDO, an Irish government agency that is responsible for supporting the shipping industry. 

 

Published in Ferry

The Rankin Dinghy of Cobh, Cork Harbour 

A Rankin is a traditional wooden dinghy which was built in Cobh, of which it’s believed there were 80 and of which The Rankin Dinghy Group has traced nearly half. 

The name of the Rankin dinghies is revered in Cork Harbour and particularly in the harbourside town of Cobh.

And the name of one of those boats is linked to the gunboat which fought against the Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Easter Rising and later for the emergent Irish Free State Government against anti-Treaty Forces during the Irish Civil War.

It also links the renowned boat-building Rankin family in Cobh, one of whose members crewed on the gunboat.

Maurice Kidney and Conor English are driving the restoration of the Rankin dinghies in Cork Harbour. They have discovered that Rankins were bought and sailed in several parts of the country.