PENMAENPOOL
At 10.55am on July22nd 1966, 39 pleasure trippers looking forward to a day out left Barmouth on a five shilling boat ride.
But the day turned into disaster when The Price of Wales sank and 15 people including 4 children died.
The tragedy unfurled at 11.45 am as the ferry, carrying six more people than was allowed, neared the end of its eight-mile trip to Penmaenpool's George 111 hotel on the first day of the school holidays.
As skipper Edward Llewellyn Jones tried to manoeuvre his vessel to the hotel jetty, it was dashed against a wooden toll bridge at Penmaenpool and went under.
Men, women an children were
thrown into the fast flowing water. Others were reported to have gone down in the boat.
As other vessels and RAF helicopters joined in the rescue one eye witness dubbed the scene a miniature Dunkirk.
PENMAENPOOL
At 10.55am on July22nd 1966, 39 pleasure trippers looking forward to a day out left Barmouth on a five shilling boat ride.
But the day turned into disaster when The Price of Wales sank and 15 people including 4 children died.
The tragedy unfurled at 11.45 am as the ferry, carrying six more people than was allowed, neared the end of its eight-mile trip to Penmaenpool's George 111 hotel on the first day of the school holidays.
As skipper Edward Llewellyn Jones tried to manoeuvre his vessel to the hotel jetty, it was dashed against a wooden toll bridge at Penmaenpool and went under.
Men, women an children were
thrown into the fast flowing water. Others were reported to have gone down in the boat.
As other vessels and RAF helicopters joined in the rescue one eye witness dubbed the scene a miniature Dunkirk.