The Pere Charles in aid of The Lifeboat Association in Dunmore, Co. Waterford.

This is an original song about the loss of the Pere Charles trawler off the Hook Light House on January 10th 2007 with the loss of five lives. Proceeds from the sale of this CD will go to the Lifeboat Association in Dunmore. It will go on sale in March 2010.
The detail of the tragedy is contained in the excerpt from the official report on the CD cover:

The Irish fishing vessel "Pere Charles" with a crew of five, departed from Dunmore East at about 10.00 hours on the 10th January 2007 and proceeded to fish for herrings south of Hook Head. The vessel engaged in pair trawling with the "Suzanna G".
Shortly after 18.00 hours on the same day as both vessels made their way back to Dunmore East, the "Suzanna G" received a call on the VHF from the Skipper of the "Pere Charles" stating "She has breached on me. Stand by". The "Pere Charles" was about one mile away and just ahead of the "Suzanna G". The Skipper of the "Suzanna G" replied "Yes Ok". That was the last known contact with the "Pere Charles" as the vessel disappeared from view.
The vessel was located on the seabed on 12th January 2007. Irish Naval Service divers carried out searches of the vessel on 16th January and also between 24th and 27th January 2007. No bodies were found.
During early November 2007, the "Pere Charles" was recovered from the seabed and brought by barge to Arklow. The vessel was searched but no bodies were found (extracted from the synopsis of the report issued by the Marine Casualty Investigation Board October 2008).

The five fishermen lost were: Tomáisín Henessy (skipper) aged 30, Pat Hennessy aged 48, Pat Coady aged 27, Billy "Squid" O'Connor aged 52 and Andriy Dyrin aged 32.
On the same night, the Honeydew II from Kinsale sank off the Waterford coast with the loss of two lives.
Proceeds from the sale of this CD will go to the Lifeboat Association in Dunmore.
The song was written by Frank Walsh, a WIT Lecturer in Accounting, a Waterford native who live in Dunmore. The singer is Pat Comerford, a well-known Waterford singer who spent some years in Mexico as a professional musician in the 1970s.




Contact details: fwalsh@wit.ie or pat.comerford@gmail.com. Telephone: Frank 087-9173388 Pat:
The Pere Charles (© copyright Frank Walsh 2007 all rights reserved)

Credits:
Words & Music and backing guitar: Frank Walsh
Engineer & Producer: Frank Comerford. Recorded at: Glen Studios, Tramore.
Musical arranger: Mark Robinson.
Musicians on this CD
Mark Robinson Lead & Rhythm guitars, banjo, keyboard, flutes and piano.
Michael Comerford: Bass Guitar.
Pat Comerford: High strings and Vocals.
Mastered by Goldenmastering USA.

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[whispersoftheocean]

A salut to these men! Wave

[deckyfan]

@dminihane i agree the fisherman need all the help they can get 2 b safe at sea , god bless our fishermen ,and god rest the soles of our men lost at sea,please give what u can 2 this cause , as it is in my opionenn that this is a very dangerous job.that takes a spechial kind of man 2 doo this work, all u lads that doo this work have my deepest thanks, u are kings among men,god bless u all ,,,,

[dminihane]

i think it's a great idea with all the proceeds going to the lifeboat's it only cost's 5 euro and you can rest assure that 5 euro will help many a life to be saved.

[dminihane]

i think it's a great idea with all the proceeds going to the lifeboat's it only cost's 5 euro and you can rest assure that 5 euro will help many a life to be saved.