The loch was used by Winston Churchill when he departed from Stranraer in a Boeing Flying boat on 25 June 1942 when making his second visit of the war to the USA.
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Stena Superfast VII and Stena Superfast VIII now complete the crossing from Loch Ryan Port to Belfast in 2 hours 15 minutes.
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This name was given to a series of earthworks that were thought to mark a frontier perhaps between Strathclyde Britons and the Angles in Galloway and running from Loch Ryan to near Annan on the Solway and perhaps even from coast to coast in association with the Catrail in Roxburghshire.
As part of Robert de Brus's 1307 expedition into Annandale and Galloway, led by Alexander de Brus and Thomas de Brus, an Irish sub king, Sir Reginald de Crawford and Malcolm, consisting of 1000 men and eighteen galleys they sailed into Loch Ryan and landed near Stranraer.
Thomas de Brus, younger brother of Robert the Bruce, captured at Battle of Loch Ryan and later executed (born c.1284)
Alexander de Brus younger brother of Robert the Bruce, captured at Battle of Loch Ryan and later executed (born c.1285)
King Robert I of Scotland's invasion of Galloway in 1307, led by his brother Alexander de Brus and Thomas de Brus, Malcolm McQuillan, Lord of Kintyre, two Irish sub kings and Reginald de Crawford, and composing of eighteen galleys, landed at Loch Ryan.