8. Echo

 

Built in 1914 by G Holloway in Ringsend, Dublin
   
Year: Owner(s):
1919 A J Wansbrough
1921 R Hall
1938 A J D Thomson
1939 H D Pearson
1947 A R Kay
1951 L G Smith
1961 A Molony & K F Ryan
1964 K F Ryan
1967 Mark & Bryan Lynch
1974 Bryan Lynch
2009 B & Harriette Lynch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The newest of the older generation of boats (1898 -1914) and although she was completed in 1914, there is no recorded owner of Echo until 1919. The boat joined many of the class in club racing from Dublin Bay Sailing Club in the 1930's and returned to Howth in 1938.