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Brockpaine

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Sunday, July 6th 2008, 6:20am

Irish News, Q2/1936

April 1
The Irish Naval Service has laid down its first destroyer, the LE Eire, today in Galway. The destroyer is destined to become the largest ship in the Irish Naval Service upon her completion, which is expected for mid-February of 1937.

April 2
The Irish government announced that Howard Electric Boat Company would be assuming ownership of a drydock located in Galway. A HEBCo. announcement will be forthcoming.

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Sunday, July 6th 2008, 6:52am

Sounds like a fitting place for HEBCo to set up shop!

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Sunday, July 6th 2008, 2:44pm

Excellent news for the Galwegian economy!!

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Sunday, July 6th 2008, 7:10pm

Very good. Was just wondering were Hebco would find a home.
Well Royal Dutch & Shell has ordered two, so they are doing their bit.

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Monday, July 7th 2008, 1:24am

HEBCO news rerleases

News Release #01 June 1st; Howard Electric Boat Company [GALWAY]
After extensive talks, the Howard Electric Boat Company [HEBCO] and the Irish Free State have concluded an agreement to open a HEBCO Shipyard and Marine Research Facility at the port of Galway, Ireland, beginning, FY3Q1936. HEBCO considers this mutually advantageous venture, to be the beginning of a future partnership that will benefit greatly both the Irish Free State and HEBCO.

News Release #02: June 1st; Howard Electric Boat Company [GALWAY]
HEBCO is proud to announce the construction of two HEBCO Cochrane Class Open Ocean Diver Support ships for its first customer, Royal Dutch Shell, at its new Galway, Ireland, facility. The contracts, signed today in Dublin, call for the first such vessel, the MSV Marcus Samue to commence construction FY3Q1936 with customer delivery NLT than the middle of FY1Q1937. The second ship, the MSV Samuel Samue will commence construction at or about the beginning of FY4Q1936, with customer delivery, after fit-out and trials, of NLT the beginning of FY2Q1937.

With the recent Danish submarine tragedy still fresh in the minds of the INTERNATIONAL maritime community. HEBCO is proud that its first commercial sales include two of the the class vessels that our founder, Mister Charles Howard, not only originally conceived as open ocean diver operation support ships; but also as capable submarine rescue and salvage vessels, so that such a tragedy as the K.D.M. Bellona need not occur, again, without the immediate means of assistance at hand..

The HEBCO Cochrane Class tenders. are state of the art vessels: sized, configured, and priced so that even the smallest of navies and commercial operators can afford to purchase and operate such vessels.

The HEBCO Cochrane Class can be configured as a: submarine tender, salvage ship, hard hat diver operations support vessel, ocean research vessel, or resource survey ship. HEBCO can mission fit the HEBCO Cochrane to any such configuration the customer so desires.

For information on the HEBCO Cochrane and other fine products that the Howard Electric Boat Company offers contact HEBCO, currently headquartered at Dublin, Ireland. Charles Howard, CEO.

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Sunday, July 13th 2008, 8:56am

April 3
Irish government spokesmen caused a stir due to a brief, but apparently planned comment on the Irish policy towards Northern Ireland. "It is the opinion of this government that it would be unethical to force the six northern counties to join in a United Ireland, at least so long as the majority of the populace in those counties prefers to remain as part of Great Britain."

The spokesman did not clarify the point further, but several politically connected individuals offered their opinions. "It is of course the continued desire of both the Irish government and Irish people to see Ireland united; but of course the reality is that the north elected to opt out of the Republic of Ireland upon it's creation. Until the will of the people should change, expending political capital to pursue Irish unity is a losing proposition."

May 15
The Irish Naval Service issued a contract for forty-eight 3.7" naval rifles and twenty-four twin DP turrets. The guns, similar to those mounted on the new Deirdre-class fisheries patrol ships, were said to be "for an upcoming project."

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Sunday, July 20th 2008, 2:08am

June 1
The Dail has authorized and funded a considerable defense procurement bill to overhaul the Irish Defense Forces.

The Irish Air Corps will begin an expansion in 1936. The base at Baldonnel will be modernized this summer, and twenty-four British Hawker Hurricanes have been purchased in May for air defense of the Republic. Six Short Sunderland flying boats, intended for naval patrol, were also purchased in May.

The Irish Naval Service received considerable funding as well, partly to finance the destroyer being built at Galway, but also to provide for extensive acquisitions in the 1937 fiscal year. Chief among the funding requirements comes the request for "the purchase and refitting of used warships". Defense officials stated that a deal had already been made, but would not be announced; they also confirmed that the 3.7" guns ordered in May were going to be used to refit the new vessels. Also noted on the naval requisitions were eight new Aisling-class small minesweepers and a single submarine suitable for training and warfare.

In further news, the destroyer being built at Galway, formerly intended to be named Eire, will instead be commissioned under the name LE Connacht; and the Dail stated that eventually three more vessels of the same class shall be added.