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image captionThe party left the promenade on South Beach in a rowing boat on 1 July 1899
The drowning of 12 people on a Sunday school outing more than 120 years ago is to be marked by QR codes linking to online information about the tragedy.
Three parents and nine children from Gwynedd died after hiring a rowing boat for a trip off Pwllheli s South Beach promenade in 1899.
Their deaths shocked and devastated the community.
QR codes, which can be scanned by smartphones, have been installed at two sites linked to the tragedy.
They are part of the HistoryPoints project, which aims to help the public learn about the history of local places via 1,900 codes and corresponding web pages for locations across Wales.
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