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Staten Island Ferry (New York City) The Steamship Authority (Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts) Texas Department of Transportation (operates two ferries, one at Galveston, Texas, and the other at Port Aransas, Texas) Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division (operate three Toronto Island ferries) Toronto Port Authority (operate one island ...
Nordic Ferry afterwards replaced MS Super Viking on the Felixstowe–Zeebrugge route. [18] [16] She was assessed at 18,732 GRT, 10,578 NRT, 8,704 DWT. [1] Townsend Thoresen was rebranded as P&O European Ferries in 1987. [19] On 4 February 1987, [1] Nordic Ferry collided with the vessel San Salvador while travelling towards
Port of Spain, officially the City of Port of Spain (also stylized Port-of-Spain), is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago and the third largest municipality, after Chaguanas and San Fernando. The city has a municipal population of 49,867 (2017), [ 2 ] an urban population of 81,142 and a transient daily population of 250,000. [ 5 ]
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health (UTSPH), is one of five regional campuses established by the Regional Academic Health Center program in 2001; it is located on the Brownsville campus of the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley. The campus offers a PhD program in epidemiology and a Doctor of ...
Sultana was launched on January 3, 1863, the fifth steamboat to bear the name. The vessel measured 260 feet (79 m) long, with a 42 feet (13 m) width at the beam, displaced 1,719 short tons (1,559 t), and had a 7-foot (2.1 m) draft. Her two side-mounted paddle wheels were driven by four fire-tube boilers. Introduced in 1848, they could generate ...
Beaumont is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.It is the seat of government of Jefferson County, [5] within the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan statistical area, located in Southeast Texas on the Neches River about 85 miles (137 km) east of Houston (city center to city center).
The 32-year-old Spanish road racing cyclist was crushed to death between a garage door and his car as he prepared to leave his home in the Province of Granada, Spain, for a training ride in preparation for the 2011 Tour de France. [84] [85] Unknown man and woman 6 June 2011
The Hawaiian islands were formed by volcanic activity initiated at an undersea magma source called the Hawaiʻi hotspot. The process is continuing to build islands; the tectonic plate beneath much of the Pacific Ocean continually moves northwest and the hotspot remains stationary, slowly creating new volcanoes. Because of the hotspot's location ...