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Kintra: Remembering the Princess Victoria disaster and its impact on a local community.

Remembering the Princess Victoria disaster and its impact on a local community.

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Remembering the Princess Victoria disaster and its impact on a local community.
 

Remembering the Princess Victoria disaster and its impact on a County Down community, also the reprint of an old classic that puts The Plantation history within reach.

The Kintra team remember the Princess Victoria disaster of January 1953 when 133 lives were lost on the Larne-Stranraer ferry route.  Jonnie Crawford meets Dr David Hume at the seafront in Larne to hear about the events leading up to that disaster.  From the Ards Penninsula, Gibson Young recounts his family’s involvement with the Cloughy lifeboat at the time and tells how the story encouraged him to record an Ulster-Scots version of an old hymn.
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