Ships in Cobh

Photo gallery of sailship HMS Bounty and Coastal Patrol ship LÉ Ciara in Cobh harbor.

Today I fulfilled my childhood dream! I walked on deck of real sailing ship. And it was actually the one that started my obsession about historic vessels since I saw the movie “The Bounty” (or as it was called in my country – “Mutiny on the Bounty”). This ship was built for a movie from 1962 and tries to be an exact replica of the original. Although through comparison on Bounty’s website you can see that this one is probably a bit bigger… What is great is that they offer some sailing trainings on this ship! Oh, I would love to do that! It would be like no more Lego, let’s get the real thing… :)

By the way, I think you have last chance to see the ship in Cobh tomorrow, Sunday 20th September. Admission is 7€ adults, sorry, don’t know about children.

Bounty had also pretty modern companion – Irish Coastal Patrol ship LÉ Ciara. Honestly, this ship wasn’t that interesting for me in comparison to classic. But anyway there was longer queue of people waiting to see the steel than the wood. Was wondering why. First thought there is lack of romanticism in this world already, but than found out that visiting Ciara was free of charge. So I queued up too ;) I spotted something “funny” though expectable – computers inside are running Bill’s Windows 2000…

OK, enough talking, lets see what I got for you.