British Airship Bases-of the 20th Century by Fife Malcolm

Author:Fife, Malcolm
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Published: 2015-03-15T16:00:00+00:00

Doagh Island Mooring Out Station

Mooring-out station for Luce Bay Airship Station.

Alternative name: ‘Ballyliffin’.

Location: 55 17’25” N, 05 23’00” W. County Down, close to the northernmost tip of Ireland in County Donegal, 15 miles to the north of Londonderry (Derry).

Airships known to have used this base: Submarine Scout S.S.20, S.S.23, and S.S.35; and Submarine Scout Zero S.S.Z.11, S.S.Z.12, and S.S.Z.20.

Doagh Island was established as a mooring out station for Luce Bay and was the northernmost of British bases in Ireland. From this location airships could provide protection for convoys rounding the north coast. The base was still under construction on 31 October 1918 and appears to have been little used before it was abandoned. Had the conflict continued, it may have been greatly expanded: it was intended to have two small steel airship sheds at Doagh Island to house two Submarine Scout Twins by the summer of 1919, and tented accommodation was due to be replaced with huts. That four of the seven windbreaks on order for mooring out stations in Britain were allocated to this base gives some insight into the inclement weather conditions experienced here. Doagh Island’s location made it particularly vulnerable to gales from the north-west. Further south, near the coast facing Scotland, Larne was the only airship base in Ireland to have its own shed in the First World War.

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