title: MV The Lady Patricia
text: # MV The Lady Patricia
  
  MV The Lady Patricia was a vessel in the Guinness shipping fleet.
  
  ## History
  
  The Lady Patricia was built by Charles Hill & Sons of Bristol as a replacement for The Guinness. She was launched in November 1962 by Lady Patrica Lennox-Boyd Guinness, wife of former British Cabinet Minister Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, daughter of Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh and Gwendolen Guinness, Countess of Iveagh.
  
  In 1973 she was converted into a tanker.
  
  In April 1993 she sailed out of Dublin port for the last time, to the Manchester Ship Canal, where she was sold. In April 1993 she was scrapped.
  
  ## Filming
  
  In Far and Away she was used as the emigrant ship and in Hear My Song she was used as the mailboat.
  
  