Couldn't think where else to put this so figured I'd make a try for the last word.
I was rooting around on the web for information on the
SS Princess Maud when I came across this site. When I was a kid in the 50's my Mum would take me
'Home' for the school summer holidays, often for weeks at a time. This was with her family on a hill farm in Co. Limerick. I vividly remember the journeys on the British Rail ferry from Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire, some pretty rough. This article describes some of these journeys perfectly (particularly the smell of sick.) The paraphrased song on the site fits her well.
I was very lucky as sea sickness never bothered me, so as kid I'd explore the ship as much as I could and her name is etched on my memory.
She had some history too by the look of it, unloading American troops at Omaha on D Day. That would probably have been only 10 years before I took my yearly trips on her.
She ended up in the Med, before being scrapped in 1973. She lasted 40 years.
http://londonanduktaxitours.com/acrosstheseatoireland/