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From the 1960s to the 1980s, the SS Uganda provided thousands of schoolchildren with their first foreign adventures on what were called educational cruises. Hundreds at a time would board for trips around Scandinavia, the Atlantic, and even behind the Iron Curtain in Leningrad. Sadly, the ship no longer exists, but Mark Stephen heads to Dundee Model Boat Club to see a replica of the Uganda, and hear tales from former passengers of disco nights, seasickness and roaming around foreign cities in school uniform.
By BBC Radio Scotland5
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From the 1960s to the 1980s, the SS Uganda provided thousands of schoolchildren with their first foreign adventures on what were called educational cruises. Hundreds at a time would board for trips around Scandinavia, the Atlantic, and even behind the Iron Curtain in Leningrad. Sadly, the ship no longer exists, but Mark Stephen heads to Dundee Model Boat Club to see a replica of the Uganda, and hear tales from former passengers of disco nights, seasickness and roaming around foreign cities in school uniform.

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