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The Princess Victoria

North Channel, off the Copeland Islands

A car ferry lost in a great storm, with 133 dead.

The car ferry Princess Victoria left Stranraer for Larne in a fierce storm. Huge waves burst open her stern doors and flooded the car deck.

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When
31 January 1953
Where
54.6800, -5.4200
Group
Shipwrecks

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Memorials stand at Stranraer, Larne and Portpatrick.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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