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    Marseille (Occitan: Marsiho or Marselha), formerly spelled in English as Marseilles, is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and...
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    "transbordeur" bridge The aerial ferry on the "transbordeur" Traditional fishing boat on the Old Port The ports of Marseille from Parc Puget The Old Port...
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    are also ferry services and boat trips available from the Old Port to Frioul, the Calanques and Cassis. As in many other French cities, Marseille has a bicycle...
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    "C'est la sardine qui a bouché le port de Marseille" ("The sardine that choked the port of Marseille") is a French popular expression dating back to the...
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    demolished the gigantic aerial ferry or "transbordeur", an engineering tour de force that had become a major landmark of Marseille, comparable to the Eiffel...
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  • Marius (1931 film) (category Films set in Marseille)
    Maupi as Innocent Mangiapan Le Chauffeur Du Ferry-Boat Lucien Callamand as Le Quartier-Maitre Du Ferry-Boat Queret as Felicite Valentine Ribe as Un Client...
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    Château d'If (category 7th arrondissement of Marseille)
    opened to the public on 23 September 1890, and can be reached by boat from Marseille's old port. Its fame as the setting for Dumas' novel The Count of...
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    finally delivered in June 1965 to the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, Marseille, France. A fire in her engine room delayed her maiden voyage on June 26...
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    2010 when the island opted to form a government-run ferry service. Jeune France is a smaller ferry serving seasonal local service between St. Pierre and...
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    S.25 and Short S.45 flying boats out of Southampton on routes to Madeira, Las Palmas, Lisbon, Jersey, Majorca, Marseille, Capri, Genoa, Montreux and...
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    bank to another: the “trail ferry””, p.33. Catherine Lonchambon, “From one bank to another of the Durance: strange boats”, inGuy Barruol, Denis Furestier...
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    The 800-berth port with two marinas hosts boats, including ferries. In the summer season, there is a ferry service between St-Tropez and Nice, Sainte-Maxime...
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    France. Ferries between England and France used the terminal. The Station was the second most important passenger port of France (after Marseille), seeing...
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    hours behind Melanie and Helene. They reached Tangier and took the first ferry across to Algeciras in Andalusia, Spain only to discover they had caught...
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    coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) A transporter bridge, also known as a ferry bridge or aerial transfer bridge, is a type of movable bridge that carries...
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  • whilst the ferry journey that the car had to make to cross the Channel was now 40 minutes longer because of a change in the type of boat used. This meant...
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  • transatlantic passenger service between New York and Marseilles, France, using Boeing 314 flying boats. On 8 July 1939, a service began between New York...
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    Type VIIB U-boat U-47 - German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net". uboat.net. Retrieved 31 May 2018. "The Type IIB U-boat U-22 - German U-boats of WWII - uboat...
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    Monaco, Menton and return There is a ferry service "Bateaubus" which operates between both sides of Monaco port. The boat is powered by electricity and operates...
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    SS Sussex was a cross-Channel passenger ferry, built in 1896 for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR). After the LBSCR came to a co-operation...
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    Dover to France by ferry, French immigration checks are carried out by the Police aux Frontières on British soil before boarding the ferry, whilst French...
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    of Normandy, France and delivered on 12 May 1995; it is registered in Marseille but its base of operations is the island of La Réunion. The Marion Dufresne...
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    have smaller ferry docks and are seasonally served from France (Marseille), while Bonifacio's harbour is only frequented by smaller car ferries from the neighbouring...
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    Cannes (section Ferry)
    situated on the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway. There are several rail services including: TGVs from Paris Gare de Lyon to Nice, a TER from Marseille St Charles...
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    MS Express Samina (Greek: Εξπρές Σάμινα) was a French-built RoPax ferry that struck the charted Portes Islets rocks in the Bay of Parikia off the coast...
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    queen." — Alexander I of Yugoslavia (9 October 1934), assassinated in Marseille, France, by Bulgarian nationalist Vlado Chernozemski "I suffer terribly...
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    Louis-André Senez was given command of Ville de Marseille. At the Bourbon Restoration, she was tasked with ferrying Duke Louis Philippe d'Orléans from Palermo...
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    one week in each direction. The Night Ferry was a through London Victoria to Paris Gare du Nord overnight boat train. Wagons-Lits operated the service...
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    Mackinac Island, Michigan. Huschka, Amy (23 September 2019). "Shepler's Ferry responds to Mike Pence motorcade backlash: 'Exceptions always exist'". Detroit...
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    and carried his body back to Yugoslavia following his assassination in Marseille. During the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, Dubrovnik...
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