Prince of Wales boat tragedy that killed 15 remembered 60 years on

The Prince of Wales boat tragedy that killed 15 people was remembered 60 years later, highlighting a disaster that still shapes survivors’ lives. The article says Peter Watts’ entire family—his nine-year-old sister Angela, 10-year-old brother David, mother Doreen, father Frederick George, and twelve others—died when the Prince of Wales pleasure boat sank on the Mawddach Estuary in Gwynedd on 22 July 1966. A memorial unveiled now recalls the names of all 15 who lost their lives. The remembrance is also framed around Peter Watts’ story, including his plan to travel from his childhood village near Milton Keynes to the estuary where the catastrophe happened. The sinking shocked the nation, and the article quotes Peter describing grief as something people “don’t get over.”