2018: A Patrol Vessel Bearing the Name of a Famous Playwright is Delivered to the Irish Naval Service

October 11, 2018

In the Republic of Ireland, an offshore patrol vessel built by Babcock Marine in England’s ceremonial county of Devon was delivered to the Irish Naval Service at its base on the island of Haulbowline in Cork Harbour. This vessel was named after George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), a world-renowned Irish playwright whose works included Pygmalion and Man and Superman.

Paul Kehoe (born in 1973), who served as Ireland’s minister of state at the Department of Defence from 2011 to 2020, was among those on hand to welcome the vessel LÉ George Bernard Shaw (P64) upon her arrival at Haulbowline Naval Base. Measuring 295.3 feet (90 meters) in length, this vessel was officially commissioned into the Irish Naval Service in April of the following year.

Photo Credit: Michael Minh (licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en)

For more information on the Irish Naval Service’s offshore patrol vessel LÉ George Bernard Shaw (P64), please check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%89_George_Bernard_Shaw_(P64)