What to see in Waterford City? Monuments

Monuments:

1.                 S.S. Formy and S.S. Coningbeg Memorial Monument. The S.S. Formy and S.S. Coningbeg failed to return to Waterford in December 1917 following a routine voyage to Liverpool. Both steamers from the Clyde Shipping Company were torpedoed by a German U-Boat U61 off the Wicklow coast. 83 people lost their lives.

2.                 Equestrian statue of Thomas Francis Meagher. T.F. Meagher was a leader of the Young Ireland movement in the Rebellion of 1848, who was born . Following the rebellion Thomas F. Meagher was transported to Van Diemen's Land, which he escaped in 1852 and ended up in New York, USA.  In USA Thomas Francis Meagher joined American Army in the Civil War and rose to the rank of Brigadier General, later Thomas Francis Meagher became Acting Governor of Montana Territory

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