Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what proposals the Northern Ireland Office has to commemorate the50th anniversary of the sinking of the Princess Victoria off the coast of County Antrim. [85032]Angela Smith: The Department for Regional Development has agreed outline arrangements for a small commemorative event at DonaghadeeHarbour where survivors were landed by the local lifeboat. Ards borough council will erect a memorial plaque adjacent to the RNLIberth and the Department plans to erect a flagpole resembling the foremast of the MV Princess Victoria. These events will complementlocal church services, the laying of wreaths at sea by the Donaghadee and Campbeltown lifeboats and a commemorative event planned byLarne borough council, Larne being the port to which the MV Princess Victoria was steaming when she sank.