Navy History up in Smoke

Raging fire at base destroys years of sea research data

13-03-2008

by Ralph Riegel

Gardaí and military police began an investigation yesterday to determine the cause of a fire which caused an estimated €1m damage to a historic Naval Service building.

It also wiped out almost five years of priceless UCC marine research.

The fire, in a 19th-century building on Haulbowline Island, in Cork, raged for almost five hours before being brought under control.

It had by then gutted the four-storey building, which housed the Naval Service administrative section and a UCC marine research unit.

The UCC unit lost all its specialist equipment in the fire - as well as data and research material painstakingly compiled over almost five years of marine projects...

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