The MFV Carraig Una was built in the BIM Boatyard Killybegs and launched in 1963. It was named Una after the Chairman of BIM Brendan O’Kelly’s wife who was a native of Rossnowlagh. Seamus Tully was the skipper when it was launched. Denis Carbery purchased the boat and fished it successfully he sold it to his brother Ted in 1976 when he had the 75 ft Slieve Bloom built.
Source: Ann Marie Carbery

The Carraig Una was thirteen years old when the tragedy happened. She was built in the Bord Iascaigh Mhara boatyard at Killybegs and measured 65 feet. She weighed 26 tons nett and 48 gross. Her estimated value at the time of loss was reliably put at $50,000. It was equipped with radar and sonar equipment. The first owner of the Carraig Una was Denis Carbery, the brother of Ted Carbery and sold it to Ted when he took delivery of his new trawler, the Sliabh Bloom in 1974.
This article was modified from a newspaper article from the time of the tragedy titled “Boat was 13 Years Old”. The name of the source newspaper is unknown.

The Boat They All Loved So Well

Denis Carbery (33), skipper of Killybegs trawler Slieve Bloom, talked for the first time yesterday since the death of his brother Ted (27), about Carraig Una.
Denis and Ted had a particular affection for the craft, built for about $30,000 in Killybegs in 1963, because they had worked on the boat for six years. She was B.I.M.’s first 65 footer, launched the year Mr. O’Kelly became chairman and chief executive. Hence his affection for the boat, which was called after his wife.
Seamus Tully, the Killybegs skipper, operated the boat for B.I.M. until Denis Carbery, a Mountmellick man with no seafaring tradition in the family, acquired it nine years ago. He gave his brother Ted, who shared his love of the sea, a job as an apprentice on the boat on which they worked together for six years.
Denis, a conscientious (fisherman) with four children, then acquired a bigger boat, 80-foot Slieve Bloom, in September of last year and costing $300,000, he decided that Ted should have Carraig Una. He and Ted, though from the midlands, loved the sea. He had been fishing for 17 years and Ted for 10.
Denis, a conscientious fisherman, was the youngest skipper in Ireland, at 23. Ted, a married man with one child, was equally conscientious, according to fishermen in Killybegs and Burtonport.
This article was modified from a newspaper article from the time of the tragedy titled “The Boat They All Loved So Well”. The name of the source newspaper is unknown.

This image shows the MFV Carraig Úna as it was painted at the time of its loss (click the image to enlarge).

This earlier image of the boat may have been around the time of its launch (click the image to enlarge).

This picture of the boat was provided by Frank Gallagher.