A launch used to ferry passengers out to the Titanic has been saved from the breakers yard.

The British Government has bought the Nomadic for two hundred and fifty thousand euros at auction in Paris.

The elegant vessel built a year before the infamous liner spent years tied up in Le Harve and faced being scrapped.

She is being brought back to Harland and Wolff to be restored and become a centrepiece of Belfast's planned Titanic quarter.