RNLI Lifeboats were launched from Portpatrick and Donaghadee and the destroyer HMS Contest set off from the Clyde to assist shortly after 11 am. At 13.58 the Princess Victoria rolled onto her beam ...
It's been 72 years since the Dumbarton-built 'Princess Victoria' capsized in the Irish Sea, making it the worst maritime ...
She was then given the name Forbes (and Bonetta, after his ship the HMS Bonetta), and ... s remarkable intelligence, Victoria took an interest in the young princess, made her her goddaughter ...