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Remembering the Princess Victoria disaster, 65 years on.

August 19, 2018January 31, 2018 by Steven Tarbox

PRINCESS VICTORIA. By Wrecksite (www.wrecksite.eu) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

65 years ago today, on the 31st of January 1953, the Stranraer to Larne ferry ‘Princess Victoria’ was lost during a storm while on passage to Northern Ireland.

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