A paddle steamer named after Oliver Cromwell has sunk twelve miles off the coast of Wales yesterday afternoon.

The ship, which was a Mississippi-style paddle steamer riverboat, was on its way to Coleraine after being sold by English Holiday Cruises for a sum of £245,000. No injuries were reported from the sunken ship and no pollution was caused, as the ship had no fuel aboard.

The sinking of the ship was caught on camera by the RNLI and shared with the BBC, as seen below. The ship was named after Oliver Cromwell, whose troops murdered thousands of Irish people during the Irish Confederate Wars and described the sacking of Drogheda in 1649 where some 4,000 civilians were killed as "the righteous judgement of God on these barbarous wretches."

Here's the ship named after him sinking into the Irish Sea.