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Stories in Sound: The Sinking of the Jack Buchan

The Sinking of the Jack Buchan

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Enda McClafferty meets the sole survivor of the 1958 fishing trawler tragedy.

Enda McClafferty meets the sole survivor of the 1958 fishing trawler tragedy that killed his great uncle and four others.

In February 1958, the ‘Jack Buchan’ was only a few hundred yards from Dunmore East harbour in Waterford when a huge wave hit, capsizing the trawler.
Five of the crew were lost, including Enda McClafferty’s great uncle Donnchadh from Downings.
Now Enda has learned that the sole survivor of that accident, washed overboard and rescued before the trawler sank, is still alive and living in Donegal. 
John James Lyons hasn’t talked publicly about the tragedy for 62 years, but has agreed to meet Enda to tell him about the events leading up to the sinking of the Jack Buchan, his dramatic rescue as he clung to a fishing basket, and the great uncle Enda never got the chance to meet.
Enda also spends time with Donnchadh’s children, still consumed with grief 62 years later, and travels to Dunmore East to meet the men who saw what happened all those years ago – the worst tragedy to hit the harbour for many years, which is still talked about in the village to this day.


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