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    Foreland Shipping Limited is a company formed for the express purpose of building and owning the Point class sealift ships. The six original ships were...
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    Defence (MoD) has purchased a 22-year charter from Foreland Shipping (previously named AWSR Shipping), who own, operate and crew the ships, utilising them...
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  • The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office...
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  • acquired in 2002 under a £1.25bn private finance initiative with Foreland Shipping known as the Strategic Sealift Service. These ships are Merchant Navy...
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    Upper Lighthouse was simply referred to as South Foreland Lighthouse. The dangers posed to shipping by the Goodwin Sands have long been recognised and...
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    abandoned until the Second World War. South Foreland Lighthouse is a Victorian-era lighthouse on the South Foreland in St. Margaret's Bay, which was once used...
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  • the steam trawler Onward. John Burn Day, Chief Engineer Officer, SS Foreland, Shipping & Coal Company Ltd. John Thomas Day, lately Group Officer, Overseas...
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    The Union-Castle Line was a British shipping line that operated a fleet of passenger liners and cargo ships between Europe and Africa from 1900 to 1977...
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    Kent mainland with only North Foreland lighthouse still in operation. South Foreland lighthouse, once known as South Foreland Upper lighthouse is now owned...
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    the strait, at approximately 20 miles (32 kilometres), is from the South Foreland, northeast of Dover in the English county of Kent, to Cap Gris Nez, a cape...
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