It was about 15 months ago that we learned about an Irish fishing boat named after the Syracuse Orange.
It was a CNN story about the boat standing up to the Russian Navy and left us with a lot of questions. TNIAAM endeavored to contact Captain Alan Carleton and much to our surprise we were greeted with a response this week.
According to Captain Carleton, this is what we learned about the origins of the fishing vessel:
The man that built the boat originally was French and he named it after where he proposed to his wife.