Ulster Monarch and Other Ships in Docks

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Ulster Monarch and Other Ships in Docks

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Details

Location

Belfast

Year

1962

Date

Production 01/01/1962

Length

01min 40sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI)

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

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.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.
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