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2. Ferry carrying D-Day veterans to France sets sail from Portsmouth

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   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 ...

3. HSC Condor Voyager - Wikipedia

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   Also on board for the trip to Europe was the French yacht Sill et Veolia which was being returned to France after being damaged whilst on the Vendée Globe round-the-world yacht race. After calling in at Roscoff to drop off the yacht and being shown off to Brittany Ferries management, she undertook berthing trials in Portsmouth, Cherbourg and ...

4. Brittany Ferries - Wikipedia

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   Cap Finistère ran between Portsmouth and Santander twice a week and also operated three round trips a week between Portsmouth and Cherbourg. In September 2010, Brittany Ferries announced plans to serve the Portsmouth–Bilbao route recently abandoned by P&O Ferries. [3] The route started on 27 March 2011.

5. MV Cotentin - Wikipedia

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   The vessel was named after the Cotentin Peninsula of France of which Cherbourg is the largest town. Sea trials commenced on 26 September 2007, after which she returned to the shipyard for completion. She was delivered to Brittany Ferries on 9 November 2007 and undertook berthing trials in Portsmouth and Poole on 14 November 2007 prior to ...

6. Portsmouth chosen to mark D-Day because of its key role in ...

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   In the days prior to the invasion, General Eisenhower was visited by Winston Churchill and General Charles de Gaulle of France. The decision to launch D-Day was delayed by 24 hours because of ...

7. List of HSC ferry routes - Wikipedia

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   HSC Villum Clausen On the way from the shipyard of Austal in Australia to Rønne in Denmark the ferry had a top speed of 47.7 knots and an average of 43.4 knots, and on February 16 and 17, 2000 it had reached 1,063 sea miles within 24 hours, thereby setting the world record which was then written in the Guinness Book of Records.