Irish Sea Crossings (All Routes and Companies)

Reference code: HOYFM.ACL2025.66
Level of description: Fonds
Title: Irish Sea Crossings (All Routes and Companies)
Scope and content: This archive contains items related to passenger ferries, roll-on/roll-off ships, and cargo/road freight ships operating on the Irish Sea route. Contents include: a book detailing livestock shipment between Larne and Stranraer in 1925, including the carrying capacities of the Princess Maud and Princess Victoria by London Midland and Scottish Railways, which took on Irish Sea steamship routes in 1923, operating from the ports of Holyhead, Heysham, Larne, and Stranraer; the Ulster Imperial Line Liverpool-Belfast route timetable for the M.V. Ulster, Ulster Monarch, and Ulster Prince (1936); British Railways timetables (1954-1963), covering sailings by Burns & Laird Lines, British and Irish Steam Packet, Belfast Steamship, and City of Cork Steam Packet Co.; a typescript on The County of Down & Liverpool Steam-Boat Company, 1836-1839; Car ferries 1972 booking guide; sailings, fares, and timetables for Belfast Car Ferries, P&O, Sealink (Stena Sealink), Swansea Cork Ferries, and Townsend Thoresen (1980s–1990s); promotional material including brochures, a pen, cassette recording of a radio interview, sick bags, a BBC press pass, and a badge to mark the inaugural crossing of the Belfast to Stranraer SeaCat in 1992.