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A ship which once ferried passengers to the illfated Titanic is to be brought back to Belfast in July after years of languishing semiderelict in a French port Northern Ireland Office Minister David Hanson confirmed today that a firm will use a submersible barge as part of plans to return the SS NomadicThe British government bought the 95yearold ship at an auction in Paris earlier this year for just over 170000 Click here to find out moreIt is the last of the White Star ships once a luxury ferry built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast the year before the Titanic which transported passengers to the great liner which later sank with the loss of more than 1500 lives in 1912