Duke

The TSS Duke of Lancaster is a railway steamer passenger ship that operated in Europe from 1956 to 1979, and is currently beached near Mostyn Docks, on the River Dee, north-east Wales. It replaced an earlier 3,600 ton ship of the same name operated by the London Midland and Scottish Railway company between Heysham and Belfast.

 

I photographed it in the summer of 2013 and created an AV for my local photographic society later that year.

 

The ship has had a checkered history and there is a lot of information online.

 

This video is in itself is a little bit of history because the graffiti that was commissioned to make the ship a public gallery has now been painted over and lost.

 

Enjoy

 

ps The video is cut slightly short but the full version is on Youtube

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Uploaded on July 7, 2017