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The Marita Ann fishing boat had received the shipment of weapons from a larger trawler called the Valhalla which departed from Boston two weeks earlier.
The weapons had been purchased over a period of months from shops all over the East Coast in an initiative led by John Crawley, an IRA member chosen for the task for his distinctly American accent. But the return trip across the Atlantic ended in disaster after the mission was sold out by an informant within the IRA. John and the other crew members were arrested, tried, and sentenced to a decade in prison. After he was finally released, John immediately returned to operations and was arrested again a few years later in the midst of a plot to destroy electrical infrastructure around London.