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The ship which was used to transfer firstclass passengers to the Titanic is to return to Belfast on 17 July The SS Nomadic was bought by the Northern Ireland Office at an auction in Paris for 171320 in January It had lately fallen into disrepair and the government bowed to pressure to save it from the breakers yard Social Development Minister David Hanson said Nomadic has the potential to bring living history of this period back to Belfast in a tangible way