FRAGATA A.R.A. 'LIBERTAD'

Dublin - Sunday 23rd June 2007

FRAGATA A.R.A. LIBERTAD: Alongside Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin. Hanover Quay is adjacent approximately 200 metres off her starboard bow. The ST Leukos departed Hanover Quay on the 9th February 1940 and was subsequently sunk by U-Boat off Tory Island, County Donegal. Patricio McCarthy who was lost on the Leukos is the only Argentinean to have been lost on an Irish registered vessel during world war two. The Leukos also docked where the FRAGATA A.R.A LIBERTAD and her escort the Irish Naval Vessel LÉ Róisín (P51) are tied up. Patricio's name is recorded along with his shipmates on the roll of honour of the Irish Merchant Seamens Memorial located on City Quay in Dublin. On Sunday the 31st of August 2003 members of the Argentine Navy attended a memorial mass  in Foxford, County Mayo, the birth place of Grand-Admiral William Brown founder of the Argentine Navy. Courtesy of the Irish Department of Communications Marine and Natural Resources, the Irish Marine Valour Medal awarded posthumously to Patricio McCarthy by the Irish Government was presented by his next of kin Mr Peter Mulvany to Lieutenant Santiago Michaelis Roldan Argentine Navy, for eventual display Armada Argentina Museo Naval De La Nacion (Argentine Naval Museum of the Nation) located in Tigre, Buenos Aires. The names of the crews lost on the S.T Leukos are also remembered on the Seamen's Memorial in Kilmore Quay, County Wexford.