Leo Bissett has added a photo to the pool:
View from Car park at Loughshinny towards harbour, Martello tower and Lambay Island
In 1913 the Daily Mail offered a prize of 35,000 to the first airman to fly around the British Isles. The only competitor to take part was an Australian, Harry Hawker and his mechanic named Kauper in a 100 h.p. Sopwit Seaplane. Everything went well up the East Coast of England and across Scotland and the Irish Sea but while flying down the east coast of Ireland towards Dun Laoghaire, the plane went out of control and crashed into the middle of Loughshinny Bay, pictured above.
The two airmen were rescued by local fishermen but when they returned the next day to rescue their plane they discovered that it had been completely stripped at low tide by souvenir hunters.
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