Ulster Monarch was a ship built locally in the famous Harland and Wolff shipyard between 1929 and 1930 and used as an Irish Sea passenger ferry. The ship had a distinguished war record when pressed into service as a troop carrier, circumnavigating Africa and taking part in the first allied landings in Italy as well as on D-Day in Normandy. After the war, she return to ferry service but was broken up in 1966 with the ship showing its age and the demand for its first class boarding in decline as air traffic soared.

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