Name Plassy (or Plassey) Yard number 669 Commissioned 20 Mar 1941 Launched 2 October 1940 Weight 594.4 tons Builder Cook, Welton & Gemmell | Operator Roycroft Ltd Laid down 23 May 1940 Construction started 23 May 1940 Length 53 m Displacement 530,700 kg | |
 | ||
Renamed Launched as Juliet
Renamed Peterjon in 1947
Renamed Plassy in 1951 Owner Limerick Steamship Company | ||
Mv plassy
MV Plassy, or Plassey, was a steam trawler launched in late 1940 and named HMT Juliet in 1941. She was renamed Peterjon and converted to a cargo vessel in 1947. She was acquired by the Limerick Steamship Company in 1951 and renamed Plassy.
On 8 March 1960, while sailing through Galway Bay carrying a cargo of whiskey, stained glass and yarn, she was caught in a severe storm and ran onto Finnis Rock, Inisheer, Aran Islands.
A group of local Islanders, the Inisheer Rocket Crew, rescued the entire crew from the stricken vessel using a breeches buoy — an event captured in a pictorial display at the National Maritime Museum in Dún Laoghaire.
Several weeks later, a second storm washed the ship off the rock and drove her ashore on the island.
The wreck still lies on the shoreline and is a tourist attraction. She is visible in the opening credits of the television series Father Ted. In early January 2014, Storm Christine shifted the wreck's position on the coast for the first time since 1991.
