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  • Arrestment of a ship, for a maritime claim; if the debtor fears a ship will leave harbour, he can apply for a warrant to dismantle the ship. By the process of...
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  • Thumbnail for Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour
    Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour (also known as Yarmouth Trawlers ) is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, directed by...
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    by 75 percent. Roads and railways were blocked and ships could not leave harbour. On 8 May 1941, 57 ships were destroyed, sunk or damaged, amounting...
    125 KB (16,971 words) - 10:36, 25 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harbour porpoise
    The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is one of eight extant species of porpoise. It is one of the smallest species of cetacean. As its name implies...
    36 KB (4,005 words) - 12:49, 26 July 2024
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    returning from one such patrol on 29 June, the ship was ordered to leave harbour only nine hours after her arrival and to begin a blockade of Dakar as...
    38 KB (5,301 words) - 03:21, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sydney Harbour Bridge
    The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel through arch bridge in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, spanning Sydney Harbour from the central business district...
    122 KB (11,919 words) - 14:36, 1 August 2024
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    Associated Press, Kiwis win Fincastle anti-submarine trophy again Subs leave harbour behind, The Daily Telegraph, p. 4 Casey, Onslow finds new home Collings...
    35 KB (3,833 words) - 05:48, 28 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Operation Postmaster
    the six-inch guns protecting the harbour from attack from the sea remained silent. From entering the harbour to leaving with the ships under tow, the operation...
    21 KB (2,594 words) - 20:11, 4 August 2024
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    liberty or leave) and is done with the intention of not returning. This contrasts with unauthorized absence (UA) or absence without leave (AWOL /ˈeɪwɒl/)...
    62 KB (6,825 words) - 13:05, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Poole Harbour
    Poole Harbour is a large natural harbour in Dorset, southern England, with the town of Poole on its shores. The harbour is a drowned valley (ria) formed...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Dogger Bank (1781)
    British victory since the Dutch fleet retreated to Texel and did not leave harbour again during the war. In addition, Dutch merchant trade remained crippled...
    15 KB (1,381 words) - 17:19, 5 August 2024
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    Halifax Harbour, and Halifax is on the west shore. By 1917, "Halifax's inner harbour had become a principal assembly point for merchant convoys leaving for...
    73 KB (8,626 words) - 18:54, 31 July 2024
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    November. She returned to Portsmouth on 7 December and she did not leave harbour until 30 January 1952 when she resumed her customary role as a training...
    78 KB (10,649 words) - 22:00, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914)
    withdrawn; with the rising tide, larger German ships would be able to leave harbour and join the engagement. Beatty took his five battlecruisers south-eastwards...
    32 KB (4,355 words) - 18:53, 24 July 2024
  • Hannah John-Kamen, Wyatt Russell, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Olga Kurylenko, Harrison Ford, Lewis Pullman, and Geraldine Viswanathan...
    68 KB (5,029 words) - 00:19, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Planned French invasion of Britain (1759)
    from the French coast by a storm, leaving the French invasion forces free to sail. Conflans declined to leave harbour, as he believed his fleet was not...
    24 KB (2,974 words) - 16:48, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Capture of USS Chesapeake
    Broke's letter. According to Ian W. Toll, he had already decided to leave harbour at the first favourable weather. The fact that it was not in his nation's...
    49 KB (6,606 words) - 16:04, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maritime flag
    national flag world-wide. They are required to be worn when entering and leaving harbour, when sailing through foreign waters, and when the ship is signalled...
    19 KB (2,565 words) - 08:23, 26 July 2024
  • from proceeding to Palestine, the unseaworthy vessel was forced to leave harbour. The Turkish authorities abandoned the ship in the Black Sea, about...
    26 KB (2,714 words) - 04:53, 28 June 2024
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    Port Jackson (redirect from Sydney Harbour)
    the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers, is the ria or natural harbour of Sydney, New South...
    37 KB (3,564 words) - 09:04, 29 July 2024
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