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SS Uganda

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Mark Stephen hears school day adventures on educational cruises aboard the SS Uganda.

The SS Uganda gave thousands of Scottish school children their first experience of foreign travel through educational cruises. Mark Stephen hears their memories.

From the 1960s to the 1980s, the SS Uganda provided thousands of school children with their first foreign adventures on what were called educational cruises. Hundreds at a time would board for trips round Scandinavia, the Atlantic, and even behind the Iron Curtain in Leningrad. Sadly, the ship no longer exists, but Mark Stephen heads to Dundee Model Boat Club to see a replica of the Uganda, and hear tales from former passengers of disco nights, seasickness and roaming round foreign cities in school uniform.

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