A 'davit', which was used to secure lifeboats on the Lusitania, has gone on display in Co Cork.
The Cunard British cruise liner, the largest ship in the world when built, was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of Co Cork on 7 May 1915, with the loss of 1,201 lives.
Its wreck, 11 nautical miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, is regarded as a war grave and protected by an Underwater Heritage Order under National Monuments Acts.
Among the liner's 1,266 passengers and around 696 crew, there were 129 children, of whom 94 died as the ship, sailing from New York, sank in just 18 minutes.
The 'davit' was caught in the net of a Northern Irish trawler in 1965 close to the wreck.
Fisherman Gerry Doyle was unable it unload it at Kinsale and brought it back to his home in Kilkeel, Co Down, where it was on display in a park there for a number of years.
It was returned to Kinsale and is now on display at the Memorial Garden at the Old Head Signal Station.
Mr Doyle's widow, Josie, said her husband would be delighted the davit is back where it belongs.
Built at the John Brown shipyard on the River Clyde in Scotland, the Lusitania's captain, William Turner, who survived after the ship went down, had received messages on the morning of the disaster that there were German submarines in the area and he altered course.
