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May 15 - Irish Oak (Irish Shipping) torpedoed and sunk
by U-607, 700 miles west of Ireland. Crew rescued by Irish
Plane 8 hours later.
June 2 S.S. City of Bremen (Saorstat & Continental
Steam Ship Company) bombed and sunk in the Bay of Biscay all 11 crew lost.
October 5 - In the largest manufacturing campaign in the
history of the Irish Sugar Company, 700 employees at the Carlow
Sugar Beet Factory will work in three shifts without pause for 18
weeks until all the 230,000 acres (930 km²) of beet is
processed.