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P&O Ferries

Index P&O Ferries

P&O Ferries is a British-based company that operates ferries from the United Kingdom to Ireland and Continental Europe (France, Belgium and the Netherlands). [1]

95 relations: Aliağa, Ardrossan, Bay of Biscay, Belgium, Bilbao, Boulogne-sur-Mer, British and Irish Steam Packet Company, Brittany Ferries, Caen, Cairnryan, Calais, Celtic Link Ferries, Channel Tunnel, Cherbourg-Octeville, Chief executive officer, Chief financial officer, Coast Lines, Competition Commission, Continental Europe, Dover, Dubai World, Dublin, Duty-free shop, English Channel, European Ferries, European Union, Falkland Islands, Falklands War, Felixstowe, Fincantieri, Fleetwood, France, General Steam Navigation Company, Greece, Hamilton, Bermuda, Helsinki, High-speed craft, HSC Express, HSC Max Mols, Incat, Ireland, Irish Continental Group, Irish Sea, Jumboisation, Kingston upon Hull, Larne, Le Havre, Liverpool, Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Mitsubishi, ..., Molslinjen, MS GNV Atlas, MS GNV Cristal, MS Herald of Free Enterprise, MS Pride of Bruges, MS Pride of Winchester, MS Pride of York, MS Viking Valiant, MS Viking Voyager, MV European Highlander (2002), Nassau, Bahamas, Nedlloyd, Netherlands, Newhaven, East Sussex, North Sea, North Sea Ferries, Northern Ireland, Office of Fair Trading, P&O (company), P&O Irish Sea, P&O Stena Line, Philippines, Portsmouth, Privately held company, Rosslare Harbour, Rotterdam, SeaFrance, SNAV, Société Anonyme de Gérance et d'Armement, SOLAS Convention, Southampton, Spain, SPL Princess Anastasia (1986), St. Peter Line, Stena Line, STX Europe, Sweden, Teesport, The Troubles, Tilbury, Transeuropa Ferries, Transport, United Kingdom, World Ship Society, Zeebrugge. Expand index (45 more) »

Aliağa

Aliağa, is a town and a district of Izmir Province in the Aegean Region of Turkey.

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Ardrossan

Ardrossan (Gaelic: Àird Rosain, "headland of the small promontory") is a town on the North Ayrshire coast in south-western Scotland.

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Bay of Biscay

The Bay of Biscay (Golfe de Gascogne, Golfo de Vizcaya, Pleg-mor Gwaskogn, Bizkaiko Golkoa) is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Bilbao

Bilbao (Bilbo) is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the province of Biscay and in the Basque Country as a whole.

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Boulogne-sur-Mer

Boulogne-sur-Mer, often called Boulogne (Latin: Gesoriacum or Bononia, Boulonne-su-Mér, Bonen), is a coastal city in Northern France.

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British and Irish Steam Packet Company

The British and Irish Steam Packet Company was a steam packet and passenger ferry company operating between ports in Ireland and in Great Britain between 1836 and 1992.

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Brittany Ferries

Brittany Ferries is a French shipping company that operates a fleet of ferries and cruiseferries between France and United Kingdom, Ireland, and Spain, and between United Kingdom and Spain.

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Caen

Caen (Norman: Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France.

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Cairnryan

Cairnryan (The Cairn; Machair an Sgithich) is a small village in Dumfries and Galloway, previously Wigtownshire, Scotland.

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Calais

Calais (Calés; Kales) is a city and major ferry port in northern France in the department of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture.

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Celtic Link Ferries

Celtic Link Ferries was an Irish ferry company which used to operate a passenger and freight roll-on/roll-off service between Rosslare and Cherbourg.

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Channel Tunnel

The Channel Tunnel (Le tunnel sous la Manche; also nicknamed the Chunnel) is a rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom, with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France, beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.

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Cherbourg-Octeville

Cherbourg-Octeville is a city and former commune situated at the northern end of the Cotentin peninsula in the northwestern French department of Manche.

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Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.

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Chief financial officer

The chief financial officer (CFO) is the officer of a company that has primary responsibility for managing the company's finances, including financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financial reporting.

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Coast Lines

Coast Lines Limited provided shipping services in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Channel Islands from 1917 to 1971.

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Competition Commission

The Competition Commission was a non-departmental public body responsible for investigating mergers, markets and other enquiries related to regulated industries under competition law in the United Kingdom.

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Continental Europe

Continental or mainland Europe is the continuous continent of Europe excluding its surrounding islands.

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Dover

Dover is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England.

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Dubai World

Dubai World (دبي العالمية) is an investment company that manages and supervises a portfolio of businesses and projects for the Government of Dubai across a wide range of industry segments and projects that promote Dubai as a hub for commerce and trading.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.

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Duty-free shop

Duty-free shops (or stores) are retail outlets that are exempt from the payment of certain local or national taxes and duties, on the requirement that the goods sold will be sold to travelers who will take them out of the country.

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English Channel

The English Channel (la Manche, "The Sleeve"; Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Mor Bretannek, "Sea of Brittany"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

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European Ferries

European Ferries Group plc was a company that operated in passenger and freight ferries, harbour operation and property management in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.

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Falklands War

The Falklands War (Guerra de las Malvinas), also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis, Malvinas War, South Atlantic Conflict, and the Guerra del Atlántico Sur (Spanish for "South Atlantic War"), was a ten-week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands, and its territorial dependency, the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Felixstowe

Felixstowe is a seaside town in Suffolk, England.

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Fincantieri

No description.

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Fleetwood

Fleetwood is a town and civil parish within the Wyre district of Lancashire, England, lying at the northwest corner of the Fylde.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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General Steam Navigation Company

The General Steam Navigation Company (GSNC), incorporated in 1824, was London's foremost short sea shipping line for almost 150 years, and the oldest shipping company in the world to begin business with steamships.

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Greece

No description.

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Hamilton, Bermuda

Hamilton is the capital of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda.

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Helsinki

Helsinki (or;; Helsingfors) is the capital city and most populous municipality of Finland.

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High-speed craft

A high-speed craft (HSC) is a high-speed water vessel for civilian use, also called a fastcraft or fast ferry.

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HSC Express

HSC Express is a wave piercing catamaran built by Incat, owned by Nordic HSC and chartered to Viking Line, from 10 April 2017 she is due to sail between Helsinki and Tallinn.

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HSC Max Mols

HSC Max Mols is a high speed catamaran launched on 1 December 1997 at the Incat shipyard in Tasmania.

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Incat

Incat Tasmania is a manufacturer of high-speed craft (HSC) catamaran ferries.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Irish Continental Group

Irish Continental Group is an Irish shipping and transport group.

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Irish Sea

The Irish Sea (Muir Éireann / An Mhuir Mheann, Y Keayn Yernagh, Erse Sea, Muir Èireann, Ulster-Scots: Airish Sea, Môr Iwerddon) separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain; linked to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel, and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the Straits of Moyle.

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Jumboisation

Jumboization is a technique in shipbuilding consisting of enlarging a ship by adding an entire section to it.

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Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Larne

Larne (the name of a Gaelic territory) is a seaport and industrial market town, as well as a civil parish, on the east coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, with a population of 18,323 people in the 2008 Estimate.

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Le Havre

Le Havre, historically called Newhaven in English, is an urban French commune and city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northwestern France.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence (MoD or MOD) is the British government department responsible for implementing the defence policy set by Her Majesty's Government and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.

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Mitsubishi

The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries.

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Molslinjen

Molslinjen, previously called Mols-Linien is a Danish company that operates ferry services between the Jutland (Jylland) and the island of Zealand (Sjælland).

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MS GNV Atlas

The GNV Atlas is a Peter Pan-class cruiseferry currently owned and operated by the Italian shipping company SNAV.

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MS GNV Cristal

MS GNV Cristal is a cruiseferry owned by the Italy-based SNAV and operated on their Olbia—Civitavecchia and Palermo—Civitavecchia services.

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MS Herald of Free Enterprise

MS Herald of Free Enterprise was a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry which capsized moments after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on the night of 6 March 1987, killing 193 passengers and crew.

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MS Pride of Bruges

MS Pride of Bruges, originally in service as Norsun, is a P&O Ferries ship used on the North Sea crossing between Zeebrugge and Hull.

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MS Pride of Winchester

The MS Pride of Winchester was built in 1975 for Townsend Thoresen.

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MS Pride of York

The MS Pride of York was built as the MS Norsea for North Sea Ferries as part of their response to the need for larger vessels in the mid to late 1980's.

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MS Viking Valiant

Pride of Le Havre was the name of ferry for P&O Ferries that sailed between Portsmouth and Le Havre from 1989 to 1994.

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MS Viking Voyager

The Viking Voyager was built by Aalborg Værft AS, Denmark in 1975 for European Ferries Group Plc who traded as Townsend Thoresen.

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MV European Highlander (2002)

MV European Highlander is a ferry operated by P&O Irish Sea on their Cairnryan to Larne service.

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Nassau, Bahamas

Nassau is the capital and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.

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Nedlloyd

Nedlloyd was a Dutch shipping company, formed in 1970 as the Nederlandsche Scheepvaart Unie (NSU) in a merger of several shipping lines.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Newhaven, East Sussex

Newhaven is a town in the Lewes District of East Sussex in England.

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North Sea

The North Sea (Mare Germanicum) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.

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North Sea Ferries

North Sea Ferries was a ferry company which operated between 1965 and 1996 when it was merged into P&O Operations (P&O North Sea Ferries), it had routes from Hull to Rotterdam (Europort) and Zeebrugge.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

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Office of Fair Trading

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) was a non-ministerial government department of the United Kingdom, established by the Fair Trading Act 1973, which enforced both consumer protection and competition law, acting as the United Kingdom's economic regulator.

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P&O (company)

P&O (formerly the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company) was a British shipping and logistics company dating from the early 19th century.

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P&O Irish Sea

P&O Irish Sea was the trading name of P&O Ferries in the Irish Sea from 1998 to 2010, when it was merged back into and rebranded P&O Ferries.

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P&O Stena Line

P&O Stena Line was formed in 1998 after the merger of P&O European Ferries (Dover) Ltd and the Dover and Newhaven operations of Stena Line.

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Philippines

The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Portsmouth

Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, mainly on Portsea Island, south-west of London and south-east of Southampton.

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Privately held company

A privately held company, private company, or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock (shares) to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned and traded or exchanged privately.

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Rosslare Harbour

The village of Rosslare Harbour grew up to serve the needs of the harbour of the same name (now called Rosslare Europort), first developed in 1906 by the Great Western Railway and the Great Southern and Western Railway to accommodate steamferry traffic between Great Britain and Ireland.

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Rotterdam

Rotterdam is a city in the Netherlands, in South Holland within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt river delta at the North Sea.

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SeaFrance

SeaFrance was a ferry company based in France, wholly owned by the French railways, SNCF, which operated ferry services between Calais, France, and Dover, England.

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SNAV

SNAV (Società Navigazione Alta Velocità) is an Italian company that operates ferry services from Italy to Sardinia, Croatia and Sicily.

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Société Anonyme de Gérance et d'Armement

The Rothschild Bank founded the Société Anonyme de Gérance et d'Armement (also known by its acronym SAGA) in 1919 for the management of French state-owned ships.

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SOLAS Convention

The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) is an international maritime treaty which sets minimum safety standards in the construction, equipment and operation of merchant ships.

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Southampton

Southampton is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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SPL Princess Anastasia (1986)

MS SPL Princess Anastasia is a cruiseferry owned by Moby St Peter Line.

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St. Peter Line

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Stena Line

Stena Line is one of the largest ferry operators in the world.

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STX Europe

STX Europe AS, formerly Aker Yards ASA, was until 2012 a subsidiary of the South Korean STX Offshore & Shipbuilding.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Teesport

Teesport is a large sea port located in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, Northern England.

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The Troubles

The Troubles (Na Trioblóidí) was an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century.

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Tilbury

Tilbury is a town in the borough of Thurrock, Essex, England.

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Transeuropa Ferries

TransEuropa Ferries was a freight and passenger ferry company operating between Ramsgate, Kent, UK and Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium from 1998 to 2013, with three or more ships.

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Transport

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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World Ship Society

The World Ship Society (WSS) is an international society devoted to maritime and naval history.

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Zeebrugge

Zeebrugge (from: Brugge aan zee meaning "Bruges on Sea", Zeebruges) is a village on the coast of Belgium and a subdivision of Bruges, for which it is the modern port.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%26O_Ferries

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