CORK HARBOUR BOARD COMMITTEES
Dredge and Works

‘The General Manager said he had sent the following letter to the Civic Guard: “With reference to recent correspondence regarding life-saving appliances on the quays, I have to inform you that within the past few weeks a life-buoy box at Lavitt’s quay was broken, a lifebuoy stolen from Merchants’ quay, and the lines attached to nine lifebuoys stolen, viz: 2 at Tivoli, 2 at Patricks’ quay, 3 at Penrose quay, 1 at Merchant’s quay and 1 at Marina.

This is a very mean form of robbery besides being a crime against the community, for whose protection the lifebuoys ae placed around the quays and it seems a pity that the offenders cannot be caught and made examples of”.

[Source: Cork Examiner, 25 September 1923]

This concern by the Cork Harbour Board of stolen and damaged lifebuoys came in the wake of the death of Nicholas Fulignati who was just nine years old when in drowned in the river Lee at Water Street boat slip on 18 August 1923. His father, Quirino, was a member of Cork’s small Italian community and was a French-polisher and cabinet maker resident on Kyle Street. 

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