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unusual facts about MV ''Normandie'' departing Portsmouth International Port



Action of 23 March 2010

The MV Almezaan had already been attacked and captured twice by Somali pirates over the past few years.

Åkre

MV Sovetskaya Latviya, a ship that sailed under the name MS Aakre in the 1930s.

Antoine Faivre

Until his retirement, he held a chair in the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, University Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Haute-Normandie, director of the Cahiers del Hermétisme and of Bibliothèque de l'hermétisme, and is with Wouter Hanegraaff and Roland Edighoffer, the editor of the journal Aries.

Arc Manche

2005 : Creation of the Channel Arc Manche Assembly : Alain Le Vern, President of the Haute-Normandie Region, is elected chairman and Brad Watson becomes vice-chairman.

Banville

Banville, Calvados, a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in north-western France

Bellême

The town's football club, FC Pays Bellêmois, compete in the Ligue de Football Basse-Normandie and the Coupe de France, playing their home games at the town's Terrain Intercommunal.

Boving Island

Named by ANCA for F. Boving, third officer on MV Thala Dan in 1965, who assisted in a hydrographic survey in the vicinity.

Buffet Crampon

In 2008 Buffet Crampon continues to pursue its strategy by the acquisition of the Leblanc clarinet factory in La Couture-Boussey, Département of Eure, Haute-Normandie in France.

Canon de 138 mm Modèle 1910 naval gun

It was carried by the dreadnoughts of the Courbet and Bretagne classes as their secondary armament and planned for use in the Normandie-class battleships.

Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle

The Château de Cerisy-la-Salle, located in the French commune of Cerisy-la-Salle (in the Manche département, region of Basse-Normandie), hosts the Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle (CCIC), a prestigious venue for intellectual and scholarly encounters founded in 1952 by Anne Heurgon-Desjardins.

Charles Joret

He was also a member of the Société des antiquaires de Normandie, and in 1902 was elected president of the Société de Linguistique de Paris.

Château de Carrouges

The Château de Carrouges is a château, dating partly from the 14th century, located in the commune of Carrouges, in the Orne department, Basse-Normandie, northern France.

Claude Taleb

He is regional vice-president in Haute-Normandie and was Dominique Voynet's campaign director in the 2007 presidential election.

Convoy Faith

The freighter MV Port Fairy, carrying ammunition, was ultimately bound for Australia and New Zealand via the Panama canal.

Fair Stable

In 1899, she married William Kissam Vanderbilt II of the prominent Vanderbilt family of New York who in 1920 inherited the Haras du Quesnay Thoroughbred breeding farm and racing stable near Deauville in France's famous horse region of Lower Normandy.

Galyonki

18th Vitebsk Normandie-Niemen Attack Air Regiment of Guards (former 11th Air Army, now 3rd Air and Air Defence Forces Command) is stationed at a military airfield in the vicinity.

Guillaume Postel

Born in the village of Barenton in Basse-Normandie, Postel made his way to Paris to further his education.

Haras d'Ouilly

The Haras d'Ouilly is a renowned horse breeding farm in Pont-d'Ouilly, Calvados in the Basse-Normandie region of France established in the 19th century.

James Steuart Shanks

George Shanks, son of Henry Shanks, is believed to be the first to translate the fraudulent antisemitic text, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, from Russian into English and was a founder of Radio Normandie.

Julius Fučík

MV Yulius Fuchik, a Soviet and later Russian barge carrier featured in Red Storm Rising

Karl von Terzaghi

Before the end of the war, he consulted on the Chicago Subway system, the Newport News Shipways construction, and raising the Normandie, among others.

Kenneth Tobey

In 1978, he appeared as Captain Gordon Trigg, captain of the Washington State ferry MV Klickitat, in NBC's two-hour Emergency! episode "The Most Deadly Passage".

Kirkby Shoal

Kirkby Shoal was discovered and charted in 1962 during a hydrographic survey of Newcomb Bay and approaches by d'A.T. Gale, hydrographic surveyor with the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) on the MV Thala Dan, led by Phillip Law.

La Bluette

The house is located in Hermanville-sur-Mer, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, a seaside hamlet of 2,661 (at the 1999 census) in north-western France.

Les Deux Amants

The mountain mentioned in the poem actually exists, near the commune of Pîtres in the Haute-Normandie region of France.

LGV Normandie

This "new" version of the LGV Normandie would begin in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre, on the regular Paris-Poissy line.

Lituya

MV Lituya, shuttle ferry for the Alaska Marine Highway System

MV Rocknes

MV Rocknes (1975) is a 3,645 ton bulk carrier launched on 1 November 1975, by Appledore Shipbuilders, in Appledore, North Devon, United Kingdom.

N-class ferry

MV Nicola, (A.K.A. Spirit of Lax Kw' Alaams) owned by BC Ferries, but operated by Lax Kw'alaams First Nations.

Norddeutscher Lloyd

In addition, there was significant new competition from new Italian, French and British superliners: the Italian SS Rex (51,062 GRT) and SS Conte di Savoia (48,502 GRT), the French SS Normandie (79,280 GRT), and the British RMS Queen Mary (80,744 GRT).

Normannognathus

In 1993 Jean-Jacques Lepage on the Normandy coast at the Cap de la Hève, near Ecqueville, Octeville-sur-Mer, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, found a ten centimetres long fossil of a petrosaur in a marine claystone layer.

Operation Mobilisation

Currently, OM Ships operates one ship cruising all around the world, the MV Logos Hope.

Pierrecourt

Pierrecourt, Seine-Maritime, a commune in the French region of Haute-Normandie

Rena

MV Rena, a container ship that ran aground off New Zealand in 2011, resulting in an oil spill

River Dart

Large cruise ships are occasional visitors, with the largest visitor to date being the MV Royal Princess (30,277 GRT).

Robert Shuster

Shuster was the presiding judge at the Royal Commission of Enquiry into the sinking of the MV Princess Ashika.

Royal Daffodil

MV Royal Daffodil, a Mersey ferry built as MV Overchurch and renamed in 1998

The Linus Pauling Quartet

On the heels of this release, the band was again invited to perform at Terrastock in June 2008, this time in Louisville, Kentucky, resulting in one of their most memorable shows, playing alongside such notable psychedelic groups as MV & EE, Robert Schneider's Thee American Revolution, Damon & Naomi, and Kawabata Makoto.

Tracfort

Assembly took place at a manufacturing workshop, at Rue de Normandie 71 in Gennevilliers, ten minutes down down the road from Courbevoie.

TSS Maianbar

It was unable to be re-floated and was broken up on site, not far from where the MV Pasha Bulker ran aground many years later on 8 June 2007.

United Kingdom's emergency towing vessel fleet

The first vessels of the UK's ETV fleet were introduced in 1994 following the recommendations of Lord Donaldson's report 'Safer Ships, Cleaner Seas' published in May 1994 following the MV Braer oil spill of off the coast of Shetland, Scotland.

Vacationland

MV Vacationland, a ferry that crossed the Northumberland Strait between New Brunswick and PEI, Canada

Virginia Fair Vanderbilt

In 1920 her estranged husband, who also maintained a home in the Parisian suburb of Passy, inherited the Haras du Quesnay Thoroughbred breeding farm and racing stable near Deauville in France's famous horse region of Lower Normandy.

Western Belle

MV Western Belle, a British commercial passenger ship built in 1935 and laid up since 2008

Windrush

MV Empire Windrush, a ship, noted for and synonymous with the first immigration of Jamaican people to England, named for the river

Yakovlev Yak-3

Marcel Albert, the official top-scoring World War II French ace, who flew the Yak in USSR with the Normandie-Niémen Group, considered it a superior aircraft to the P-51D Mustang and the Supermarine Spitfire.


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