Coordinates: 57°08′20″N 2°05′20″W / 57.139°N 2.089°W / 57.139; -2.089 The River Dee Ferry Boat Disaster, 5 April 1876, drowned 32 people in the mouth of the River Dee, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
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