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unusual facts about Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847


Port of Bristol Police

Officers are sworn under powers in legislation derived from the Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847.


Beaches in Sydney

Sydney has tropical beaches and one of its harbours was featured in Finding Nemo.

Campaigns of 1801 in the French Revolutionary Wars

The war against the United Kingdom continued (with Neapolitan harbours closed to her by the Treaty of Florence, signed on 28 March), and the Turks invaded Egypt in March, losing to Kleber at Heliopolis.

Canal de Bourbourg

The Canal de Bourbourg is a 19.5 km long canal which connects the Aa River (near Bourbourg) and Dunkerque's inner harbours in the Nord department, in northern France.

Colonies of Poland

As a result, Kettler established one of the largest merchant fleets in Europe, with its main harbours in Windau (today Ventspils), and Libau (today Liepāja).

Crozon

Crozon harbours Île Longue, the base of the French strategic nuclear submarines.

Drummore

However, in July 2008 the Dumfries and Galloway Council decided to seek an Empowerment Order under the Harbours Act 1964 which would enable the Council to take over the harbour land and operations, following the pattern of a number of successful harbours along the Solway coast.

Edward William O'Sullivan

He was a most vigorous minister and was responsible for a great development of the tramway system, for the building of many new railways, and for many other public works in connexion with water-supply, roads, rivers, harbours and buildings, including the new Sydney railway station.

Erfurt Cathedral

The central spire of the three towers that sit aloft the cathedral harbours the Maria Gloriosa which, at the time of its casting by Geert van Wou in 1497, was the world's largest free-swinging bell.

État 40-001 to 40-143

The engines were assigned to the depots of Paris-Vaugirard, Montrouge, Batignoles, Sotteville (Rouen), Le Havre, Dieppe, Trappes, Chartres, Caen, Cherbourg, St-Brieuc, Brest, Nantes, Rennes and La Rochelle as well as industrial railways and harbours.

Force d'action navale

The minesweepers secure major French harbours, especially for the ballistic-missile submarines in Brest, and the attack submarines in Toulon.

They also stay available to secure access to Toulon, Marseille, any of the harbours of the Atlantic coast, and any Allied harbour simultaneously.

Fox Harbour, Nova Scotia

Homes are primarily situated around the harbour with a focal point being the picturesque St. Andrew's United Church, part of the Three Harbours Pastoral Charge of the United Church of Canada.

Garlieston

Prototypes of the harbours were constructed at Conwy in North Wales and then transported and positioned in Wigtown Bay, where they were tested and modified through 1943 and 1944.

Geology of the Waikato-King Country Region

Substantial sand dunes with high iron content have formed around the Kawhia and Aotea Harbours.

Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847

The Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which governs harbors, docks, and piers.

Ithaca Creek

Ithaca in Greece has one of the world's largest natural harbours and is famous in legend as Homer's Ithaca, the home of Ulysses, whose delayed return to the island is one of the plot elements of the Odyssey.

James Rodley

The North Harbour Rugby Union NPC team won the Ranfurly Shield in 2006 for the first time in North Harbours history against Canterbury.

John Peter Oleson

His main interests are the Roman Near East, maritime archaeology (particularly Roman harbours), and ancient technology, especially hydraulic technology, water-lifting devices, and Roman concrete construction.

Joseph Demarco

More so since the then Grand Master of the Knights Hospitallers, António Manoel de Vilhena, had given free entry to the harbours to all nations.

Kalyves

In classical and Byzantine times, Kalives is the likely site of Kissamos, one of the ancient city of Aptera's two harbours.

Kamfers Dam

The dam harbours high concentrations of blue-green algae (Spirulina spp) and diatoms (Cyclotella spp.), the main food sources for its plentiful Lesser Flamingos.

Maytenus tenuispina

Maytenus, as do most of the Celastraceae, harbours an alkaloid named celastrin first obtained from Celastrus scandens by Prof. Edward S. Wayne of Cincinnati in 1872 as a white, crystalline substance.

Old Colwyn

It also harbours the 3rd Colwyn Bay (Old Colwyn) Scout Group headquarters and is home to the area's comprehensive school, Ysgol Bryn Elian

Paramillo Tapaculo

Only 0.1 km² is effectively protected by the Fundación ProAves Colibri del Sol Bird Reserve (which also harbours the highly threatened Dusky Starfrontlet and Fenwick's Antpitta).

Paul Deltombe

Until 1959 he submitted colourful market scenes, and views of the lively fishing harbours located between Pornichet and Bourg-de-Batz.

Portolan chart

The word portolan comes from the Italian adjective portolano, meaning "related to ports or harbours."

St Anthony's Lighthouse

The harbour is also known as Carrick Roads and is one of the largest natural harbours in the world.

The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project

Troubled with these bizarre developments and the unresolved feelings that he harbours for Swara Bhaskar (Swara Bhaskar), his office colleague, Kartik embarks on an extraordinary journey that transcends love, life and logic itself.

To the Devil a Daughter

Verney learns that the order really harbours a group of practicing Satanists who have prepared Catherine to become an avatar of Astaroth upon her eighteenth birthday.

Tsemes Bay

Michael Rostovtzeff explained this by the fact that there are no other decent harbours along the coastline all the way to Batumi.

Westfield, New Zealand

Portage Road is the location of one of the overland routes between the two harbours (and thus the Pacific ocean and the Tasman Sea), where the Maori would beach their waka (canoes) and drag them overland to the other coast, thus avoiding having to paddle around North Cape.

William Parker Snow

He supported many good causes including services to the poor in London and marine safety, including the efforts of Samuel Plimsoll and proposals for harbours of refuge and a system of linked floating relief stations around the globe.


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