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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Union-Castle Line (redirect from Southampton Steam Shipping Company)
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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Strait of Dover (section Shipping traffic)
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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