Supatramp:
At the bottom of the loch, where the boats do a left/right turn, there’s a major conflict of currents which always causes some turbulence. It was there that the Princess Victoria’s problems started, and she sadly never recovered.
Is there really ■■? Cant say I’ve noticed it and been in and out of there on various sized boats/ships and in some crap weather …
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every single time the feries come out of the loch and get exposed to the full brunt of the sea and weather then when your cabbing it you always feel the difference lying in your bed as apart from the few car alarms that went off and stopped as it left the berth,then theres plenty go off again even in fine weather so it must be a combination of the way the seas going combined with a left turn to head for belfast/larne.
you dont notice it much upstairs,but always noticable cabbing it.[/quote
does that part of the crossing get reffered to as the meeting of the seven waters?
oldmannie:
As Supatramp so rightly says the area outside the mouth of Loch Ryan is very turbulent with
several different currents meeting there. It is often referred to as a “Troubled Sea”.
Born and bred in Stranraer I remember the Princess Victoria disaster well. It was the most
bizarre of disasters. In effect the ship was never more than 10 miles from land and was in
constant contact with Portpatrick and the Royal Naval destroyer coming to it’s aid but in a
period of over 4 hours bobbing around in the North Channel it was never found by rescue
ships and sank alone with an appalling loss of life including all women and children onboard.
The best known of shipping disasters, the Titanic sank in 2 hours 20 minutes after hitting an
iceberg in the middle of nowhere. The Victoria sank 4hours 15 minutes after sending it’s first
call for aid and as previously stated was never more than 10 miles from land. Titanic didn’t have
anywhere enough lifeboat space, Victoria had more than ample. Percentage of those on board
lost on the Titanic was 70%, on the Victoria 75%.
To this day any mention of the Princess Victoria in a Stranraer pub will lead to a heated discussion
with all invloved putting forward different views and theories as to what happened.
Do you recall Amazing Grace and Little Nell plying their trade in the harbour.
oldmannie:
Coronation Drive Dave, but I escaped in 1963 when I joined up.
I left in 64 as a toddler after living out at Eastwood Ave, went back in 75 & stayed in Murrayfield Gdns for a while then moved to Belmont road before leaving again in 84.
Posters are mentioning how rough it can get when you turn left at the head of Loch Ryan, this really was a frightening experience back in the day on the Delreada during a stormy crossing.
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every single time the feries come out of the loch and get exposed to the full brunt of the sea and weather then when your cabbing it you always feel the difference lying in your bed as apart from the few car alarms that went off and stopped as it left the berth,then theres plenty go off again even in fine weather so it must be a combination of the way the seas going combined with a left turn to head for belfast/larne.
you dont notice it much upstairs,but always noticable cabbing it.
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does that part of the crossing get reffered to as the meeting of the seven waters?[/quote]
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ive always referred to it as the … there goes 35 car alarms going off to wake me up bit…
Big Truck:
Where does the wreck of the Princess Victoria lie??
in theory they think its meant to be 5 miles east of the copeland isles( the wee thing just out from groomsport??) but the whole thing was a clusterfork of incompetence from start to finish.
google is your friend and wikipedia kinda says it all.
