Irish Naval Service.

The Naval Service (Irish: An tSeirbhís Chabhlaigh) is the maritime component of the Defence Forces of Ireland and is one of the three branches of the Irish Defence Forces.Its base is in Haulbowline, County Cork.

Naval Service
An tSeirbhís Chabhlaigh (Irish)

Servicio Naval Irlandes

Creada en 1949 .

El Servicio Naval tiene la difícil tarea no sólo de vigilar las aguas territoriales irlandesas sino también de vigilar la "Caja de Conservación Irlandesa", la cual es una inmensa área de mar en la cual la pesca está restringida para preservar los números de vida marina. El Servicio Naval por ende sirve a la Unión Europea, al proteger este área así como a la República de Irlanda.

Se han realizado numerosas intercepciones de navíos transportando narcóticos hacia y desde Irlanda, llevándose a cabo con la cooperación del Servicio Aéreo y la Guardia Costera. Todos los buques de guerra están suficientemente armados para hacer valer sus funciones policiales.

Debido a la localización geográfica de la isla el Servicio Naval no dispone de grandes buques de guerra ya que serían de poca utilidad para sus funciones, además de no estar reflejado en la política de defensa de la República, la cual no contempla la posibilidad de sufrir amenazas de gran entidad. El Servicio Naval posee un personal de alrededor de 1114 personas.

SAILOR KNIFE OF IRELAND

KERRY
Lios Tuathail in English = Listowel.

Jowika Stahlwarenfabrik Eugen Weber & Altenbach KG.

Founded in Solingen in 1928, under the name Johann & Wilhelm Kleinewefers GMBH, Messerfabrik. JWK for short, hence JoWiKa.

Sold to Eugen Weber in the 1930s. Weber was married to a woman named Altenbach, from a family that manufactured innovative low-priced pocketknives, as well as other cutlery items.

In 1960 Weber opened a branch factory in Listowel Ireland. It was sold to Albert M. Baer of Imperial Schrade in 1978; he kept on the German born manager. The Listowel factory was closed about a year and a half before the U.S. Schrade factory closed. Les deAsis of Benchmade bought some of its newer machinery (he said it cost more to ship than to buy).

The Jowika factory in Solingen closed in 1984.

Riggin knife fron Irish Naval Service. In Jowika-Solingen

Navaja hecha en Solingen para la Armada Irlandesa

JOWIKA- ROSTEFREI.

In Black and Repúblic of Ireland.

JOWIKA REPÚBLIC OF IRELAND .

Two variants of knives that were manufactured in Ireland by this German house later bought by IMPERIAL USA.

Today the brand has disappeared, the factory is a Post Office

This IMPERIAL STAGG factory had 130 workers, many of them women, and they still meet once a year to remember the old days...

It was a very important company and its closure in 2003 was a hard setback for them after more than 40 years open...

Irish seafaring knives:

One has a second can opener-bottle opener blade, and the other only the main blade and the knot loosening punch something different from the German original....

Curiously, the 2 knives I have bought from North Americans where the Mother House was .....

Before these 2 models there was another model with the scales in Green but made in Germany for the Irish Naval Service

Muy parecida a esta navaja fábrica en Sheffield por PREMIER que no fue de dotacion en la Armada Britanica

Esta ya hechaa en la Sección Irlandesa de Jowika y con abrelatas .

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Written, Information and Photographs of MARY COGAN :

Jowika in Germany

In Ireland in 1961 Seán Lemass was Taoiseach. Lemass was really our first European. He encouraged trade links with Europe. With The First Programme for Economic Expansion he encouraged direct investment by European manufacturers in Ireland.

It was a case of, "If you build it, they will come." The IDA built advance factories around Ireland and then went to the continent to persuade industrialists to locate here.

As part of this movement, Dan Moloney, T.D. was put in contact with the Weber family who had a factory at Solingen in Germany. This factory was Jowika.

The advance factory was not yet built in 1960 when the Weber family came to town. They opened an office in a premises in Church Street; Brownes now Liam Dillons

An early employee remembers that packages were brought by horse and dray from the railway station. These packages contained cuckoo clocks and scissors. They were individually packaged in Listowel for the Irish and English market.

Another employee remembers that the kookaburra was the symbol of the company and badges with kookaburras were distributed to the employees.

The factory was finished by 1962 and there was a grand opening.

Because they had no experience of manufacturing work and little or no German, a group of early employees were sent to Germany to the parent factory to learn the ropes.

In all about 30 local men and one woman, Cathy Halpin, went on this first learning mission. The company was very much a family business and Cathy tells me that when she went to Germany she lived with Henry Weber's grandmother in Solengen.

Jowika gave valuable employment to Listowel for many years. It was taken over in 1973 by an American knife company and traded until its closure in 2003 as Imperial Stag.

Jowika Girls German Trip

Sept 1 1962

SEVEN North Kerry ladies are due in Solingen, Germany, this week-end to begin training for work in Listowel's new cutlery factory. The young ladies left Listowel on Wednesday morning and the over-land trip to Solingen —the Sheffield of Germany—was expected to take three day. The senior girl in the party was Miss Betty Clancy, of St. Brendan's Terrace, Listowel, and the others were Jean Nolan and Joan Reidy, O'Connell's Avenue, Listowel; Teresa O'Connor, Behins, Kathleen Flanagan, Ballyduff; Betty Leahy, Harthill, and Sheila Browne, Ballyhorgan. Another party of five girls is due to leave for Germany at the end of this month. The Jowika factory began production some months ago when thirty-five boys had completed a term of training in the parent factory in Solingen. The managing director, Mr. Henrich Weber, told The Kerryman he expected that the Listowel factory would have about 150 workers on the payroll in eighteen months time. At the moment there were about 120. The Listowel factory is turning out pen, pocket and kitchen knives and is about to go into the production of manicure sets, precision tools and other branches of cutlery. The finished product is exported to British Commonwealth countries and the U.S.A-----------------------

Photo; The Listowel girls who left this week for training in Solingen, Germany. From left: Misses Betty Clancy, Jean Nolan, Joan. Reidy, Teresa O'Connor, Kathleen Flanagan, Betty Leahy and Sheila Browne. They were seen off by the managing director of Jowika (Ireland) Ltd., Mr. H. Weber, and Senator D. J. Moloney.

Jowika in Germany

Philomena Moriarty Kuhn recently posted some photos on Facebook. They were taken on a trip by workers at Jowika Listowel to Germany.