LÉ Macha

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LÉ Macha was a ship in the Irish Naval Service. Built as a Template:Sclass2 of the Royal Navy named Template:HMS, she was transferred on 15 November 1946 to the Irish Naval Service and renamed LÉ Macha after Macha, an ancient Irish goddess of war.

HMS Borage

She served as escort for the Arctic convoys from 1942-1945 before being sold to Ireland.

LÉ Macha

Template:Stack In September 1948, she had the honour of carrying the remains of William Butler Yeats from France to Drumcliffe, County Sligo, for reburial.<ref>Foster, R. F. (2003). W. B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. II: The Arch-Poet 1915–1939, p. 656. New York: Oxford UP. Template:ISBN.</ref> There was a funeral march from Nice to the ship with band, trumpeters and military honours from a company of French alpine troops. It was the first time that France rendered military honours to a civilian.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The remains were received at Rocquebrune near Nice by Sean Murphy, the Irish Ambassador to France.

The voyage home took 17 days. LÉ Macha stopped en route at Gibraltar and in France. The ship returned to Galway, whence the remains were carried by hearse to their final resting place in County Sligo.<ref>"WB Yeats laid to rest in Drumcliffe" Template:Webarchive, The Irish Times, 18 Sept. 2009, republishing article from 18 September 1948.</ref>

LÉ Macha was sold for scrap on 22 November 1970.

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