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Only the ground floor space in the terminal building is used for passengers. Upstairs there are offices and the Douglas Harbour Control Unit. In the main departure lounge, there is a Costa Coffee café, WHSmith store, a Steam Packet ferry travel shop, a play area for children, toilet facilities, foot passenger check in area and a model of the Laxey Wheel.
Douglas Harbour is composed of the Outer Harbour and the Inner Harbour separated by the Bascule Bridge and Flapgate. There is a sea terminal building at the north-east end of the harbour, co-located with the harbour control. [2] The Outer Harbour features two jetties, four piers, eleven berths, and an area designated for lifeboats. [2] The ...
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HSC Manannan is a 96-metre (315 ft) wave-piercing high-speed catamaran car ferry built by Incat, Australia in 1998.After commercial service in Australia and New Zealand, she was chartered to the US military as Joint Venture (HSV-X1).
MV Coho in Victoria Harbour, British Columbia, Canada Looking back on the bridge, from the bow The MV Coho is a passenger and vehicle ferry owned and operated by Black Ball Line . [ 2 ] Black Ball's only ferry, Coho carries passengers and cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailers , bicycles, etc. between Victoria , British Columbia , Canada and ...
Victoria Express, also known as Victoria Rapid Transit, [1] was the name of a private, seasonal ferry operation based in Port Angeles, Washington.The service operated two passenger-only ferries on routes between Port Angeles and Victoria, British Columbia and Friday Harbor, Washington during the summer, the 149-seat, 105-foot (32 m) Victoria Express and the 120-foot (37 m) Victoria Express II.
The ferry services run by the Black Ball Line (between Victoria's Inner Harbour and Port Angeles, Washington), BC Ferries (between Swartz Bay and Tsawwassen), or the Washington State Ferries (between Sidney, British Columbia and Anacortes, Washington) do not serve Seattle or come near the downtown harbours of either Victoria or Vancouver.
The main UK port switched from Liverpool to Heysham, thus ending (albeit temporarily as it turned out) an association lasting back to the company's origins. In 1996, the Steam Packet Company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sea Containers headed by James Sherwood , who had pioneered the fast-craft operation.