Memorial for sailor whose name is etched in stone

A sailor whose name remains etched in a rock 90 years after he drowned in Youghal Harbour is to be ceremoniously remembered this week.

The victim was William Perrott, who mysteriously tried to swim ashore from his ketch Daisy as it lay anchored at the mouth of the River Blackwater sometime in 1933.

Records of the tragedy are scarce but indicate Mr Perry was a 33-year-old Welshman employed as a cabin boy.