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Portsmouth investigated three locations for a ferry port at the end of the 1960s, before the current location was chosen. The choice was based on cost and the likely benefit of cross-channel ferries. The site was at the end of the newly constructed M275 .
MV St Faith is a vehicle and passenger ferry operated by Wightlink on its route from Portsmouth to Fishbourne on the Isle of Wight.As with former sister ship St Cecilia, there were plans to increase St Faith ' s capacity by extending her length by 12 metres (39 ft).
A ferry carrying D-Day veterans to France for the 80th anniversary commemorations has set sail from Portsmouth. The Brittany Ferries ship Mont St Michel was accompanied by Royal Navy patrol ...
The company that currently operates the Gosport ferry was created in 1883 as the Port of Portsmouth Steam Launch & Towing Company, making it one of the longest serving ferry services in the UK. [1] In 1963, it took over the Gosport & Portsea Watermen's Steam Launch Company , founded in 1875 by the watermen , who had operated ferries on the ...
Follow live coverage as Sunderland face Portsmouth in the Championship today. An increasingly competitive second tier in English football remains an intense and exciting competition, with the ...
Hovertravel is a ferry company operating from Southsea, Portsmouth to Ryde, Isle of Wight, UK. It is the largest passenger hovercraft company currently operating in the world since the demise of Hoverspeed. Hovertravel is now the world's oldest hovercraft operator, [1] and this service is believed to be unique in western Europe. [2]
With only one ship the company required two additional vessels to run a full service to the Channel Islands. They chartered the Brittany Ferries freight ferry Briezh-Izel to run alongside the Corbière from Portsmouth and the Portelet to run a new service from Weymouth which was to last until 1 October 1988. The service from Portsmouth was ...
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