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Call to return Titanic link ship

The government has been urged to fund the return to Belfast of a ship described as an "important building block" in a Titanic tourist project.
North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds says cash is needed to bring back SS Nomadic, the last of the White Star ships.

The ship, built at Harland and Wolff the year before the Titanic, was used as a tender to take first-class passengers to and from the great liner.

It is currently in Le Harve, France, and will be auctioned on 26 January.

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