LÉ ''Setanta'' (A15) was an
auxiliary ship
An auxiliary ship is a naval ship designed to support combatant ships and other naval operations. Auxiliary ships are not primary combatant vessels, though they may have some limited combat capacity, usually for purposes of self-defense.
Auxili ...
and
training ship in the
Irish Naval Service.
She was named after
Sétanta (Cú Chulainn), a mythical hero of the
Ulster Cycle
The Ulster Cycle (), formerly known as the Red Branch Cycle, is a body of medieval Irish heroic legends and sagas of the Ulaid. It is set far in the past, in what is now eastern Ulster and northern Leinster, particularly counties Armagh, Do ...
.
Liffey Dockyard in
Dublin
Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...
built her in 1953 as a
lighthouse tender for the
Commissioners of Irish Lights. She was launched as ''Isolde'', named after the mythical Irish princess
Iseult.
In 1976 the INS bought her, had her armed with two
Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
The Oerlikon 20 mm cannon is a series of autocannons based on an original German Becker Type M2 20 mm cannon design that appeared very early in World War I. It was widely produced by Oerlikon Contraves and others, with various models empl ...
and renamed her ''Setanta''. She served until 1984 when the INS sold her to Haulbowline Industries Ltd of
Cork for scrap.
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1953 ships
Former naval ships of the Republic of Ireland
Ships built in Ireland
Naval ships of the Republic of Ireland