‘Shamrock 165 Volume II – Decision over Dolgellau’ starts with the closing of the Saint Kevin’s (Fox Love) doors. In this volume we bring the aircraft all the way from taxiing to its final rotation. From there we go on to look at the specific routing that the pilots chose that evening. We follow the aircraft as far west as piercing the 4th meridian at which point we temporarily suspend the story until Volume III.

But for the grace of god …
This volume also features a blow-by-blow account of the story of the Saint Kevin’s trailing sister-ship, the Saint Colman (Charlie Tare). On her perilous journey, Charlie Tare went through hell and back, literally falling out of the sky in the process. So bad was the ice she encountered, her propellers were liquefied to the point of inebriation! Twenty six minutes after Fox Love met her fate in Snowdonia, Charlie Tare came within a hairsbreadth of crashing in the same mountain range.

Saint Kevin occupants
Also in this volume are the biographies of five of the victims including First Officer, William Newman, Air Stewardess, Deirdre Sutton, the only teenager on the flight, Lily Wenman and a doctor from West Cork.

Ostensible Operative
And finally, the mysterious traveller, Bill Lynch. Everything about this passenger oozes elusiveness. A plethora of rare and stunning photographs is used to document his entire life – with particular emphasis on his work in what was, at the time, the greatest ever scientific endeavour – The Manhattan Project.