NEWRY SHIPS STEAM TURBINE SAIL

THIS DUNDALK WAS THE SCOURGE OF SOME NEWRY PEOPLE AND WAS LOVED BY OTHERS. WHEN SHE CAME UP THE CANAL (usually In the mornings !!) SHE LET OUT A HOOT THAT WENT ALL THE WAY TO LOUGH NEIGH AND BACK, AND TAKE NO NOTICE OF THE SPELLING HERE BECAUSE I WRITE FROM THE TOP OF MY HEAD. ANY WAY, THE TOWN TRIVED ROUND "BIG" BOATS LIKE THIS, SHE BROUGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING INTO THE TOWN EXCEPT CHINESE NOODLES (NO CHINESE IN NEWRY THEN) AND IF THERE WAS, THEY WERE EATIN SPUDS LIKE THE LOCALS. ON THE WAY OUT OF THE TOWN SHE CARRIED A COUPLE OF THE RICH FOLK ) she was called a passenger cargo ship ) & THESE FOLK PROBABLY OWNED ALL THE CATTLE AND SHEEP IN HER HOLDS. When you heard this things hoot in the early hours of the morning (usually ) you werent too happy, because it woke you up for school, (ha who went ??) and it told you when it was time to be in the house again. I used to love the thing, sneaking on board wasnt too difficult, a big steep gang plank (ladder) made of wood with high sides on it sos you didnt fall in the cana, l if you were ever unlucky to slip on the sheeps pellets (shit ) that seemed to be always spread up and down it no matter what the time of day was. I wont tell you how you smelt after you walked up the gang way (ladder)a few times & it was no good thinking of giveing the gang plank a miss and hooking straight over her side on to the quay, because the quay was covered in it as well. , Jasus it stuck to you all day, anyway, i dont know how many times sheep and even great bullocks not to be confused with bollix !! these (male cows) were the cause of a lot of commotion after they had fallen in to the canal ,some might have been blind and had a natural reason for doing this, but most that went in were squashed in the rush along the wider gang plank (laid flat ladder) and broke the sides of the thing. The odd docker was known to follow suit for what ever reason, may have been like a virus at that time and no one knew it, but i was there when a man fell in and was trapped along the side of the boat,(ship) & the kee,( Ulster scots for bank or quay) Naturally the poor man wasnt too welcome in Daisy Hill for the smell of pellets (shit) & in general manure (more shit) made him the most unwelcome visitor ever in the place, other patients were seen to turn from the door because the naturally thought they were at the vets In hill street facing the market (incase you didnt know). However back to the boat (ship) was the biggest thing ever to enter the Newry canal, and the way things are going there it will stay that way, that is untill the big sky scrapers get built In St Christopers Park very soon !! and if you havent heard of them buildings and whats comming , ask the council about them, whisper whisper, I heard they were putting a glass floor over the thing, like they have done in the abbey buildings (bagenal supposed castle) to hide the past events that have happened here, untill a few years down the road, where upon they might will get a big glass cutter and reveal to the world it was once the first Canal In europe and built by the Ulster Scots, & It should be preserved in a state as close to the way these hard working men made it. The moral of this story is, Newrys history is being redifined and nothing is sacred not even our famous Canal, but you didnt hear it from me , Im just telling you what I heard. But what I want to know is what the frig are they going to do with all the water, perhaps a bit like all the bodies that were DUG OUT FROM under the so called castle, all be taken to Queens In Belfast and get REannilised (big wrongly spelt word ) Then we will probably hear that there were bodies In the Canal as well, (no shit sherlock ) at this date I think they called the coffin ship corpses.