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Thu 01 Jan 2009Hopes raised of salvaging historic steamship
HOPES HAVE been raised that a historic steamship lying on the bed of the Shannon at Ballina, Co Tipperary, may be salvaged and preserved as a tourist attraction.
The wreckage of the Lady Lansdowne, one of the world’s oldest iron steamers, which was in service on the Shannon in the mid- 19th century, lies submerged at Ballina’s Derg Marina.
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