SS Lady Wicklow
{{Short description|Used as a troopship by the Irish Free State}}
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|+SS Lady Wicklow {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship name= |Ship owner=City of Dublin Steam Packet Company (1890–1924), then British and Irish Steam Packet Company |Ship operator= |Ship registry= |Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship builder= Blackwood & Gordon, Port Glasgow |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number=230 |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=28 March 1895 |Ship completed= |Ship christened= |Ship acquired= |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship identification=Official number: 104963 |Ship fate=Scrapped 21 August 1948 |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship type=Steamship |Ship tonnage={{GRT|1207}}, {{NRT|470}} |Ship length={{convert|262|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|34|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship height= |Ship draught= |Ship draft= |Ship depth= |Ship decks= |Ship deck clearance= |Ship power= |Ship propulsion= |Ship speed= |Ship capacity= |Ship crew= |Ship notes= }} |
SS Lady Wicklow was a steam-powered ferry built in 1895 in Port Glasgow for the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. She was 262 feet long and had a beam of 34 feet. She was scrapped in 1948.{{cite web |title=Wicklow |url=http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=2476 |website=Scottish built ships |access-date=24 June 2022}}
During Irish Free State offensive of the Irish Civil War in July and August 1922 the Irish Free State used her as a troopship,{{cite book |last=McIvor |first=Aidan |year=1994 |title=A History of the Irish Naval Service |place=Dublin |publisher=Irish Academic Press |isbn=0-7165-2523-2 |pages=44–48}} firstly to transport 450 officers and men to Fenit, the port of Tralee{{cite book |last=Harrington |first=Niall |year=1992 |title=Kerry Landing |place=Dublin |publisher=Anvil Books |isbn=978-0-947962-70-8 |page=72}} and then with TSS Arvonia to take troops from Dublin to Cork.
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Category:Irish Civil War ships
Category:Ships of the British and Irish Steam Packet Company
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