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unusual facts about Port of Bloscon-Roscoff



Adolf Portmann

Born in Basel, Switzerland, he studied zoology at the University of Basel and worked later in Geneva, Munich, Paris and Berlin, but mainly in marine biology laboratories in France (Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roscoff, Villefranche-sur-Mer) and Helgoland.

Brittany Ferries

Following the provision of the deep-water port at Roscoff, the company commenced operations in January 1973 at the instigation of Alexis Gourvennec, when existing ferry companies showed reluctance in providing a service from Roscoff to Plymouth.

In the winter, during refit season, this route is used so that both MV Armorique and MV Bretagne can be moved between the Portsmouth to St Malo route and also the Plymouth to Roscoff route.

The company began sailings between Roscoff in Brittany and Plymouth in the South West of England using the freight ferry Kerisnel.

Channel Ports

The broadest definition might be from Plymouth east to Kent and from Roscoff to Zeebrugge although a tighter definition would exclude ports west of Newhaven and Dieppe.

County Cork

Since the late 1970s, there have been direct ferries from Cork to Roscoff, France.

Édouard Corbière

In 1880, a short road in central Le Havre was renamed after Corbière and later Brest, Morlaix (1905) and Roscoff (1911) did the same.

Ernest Everett Just

At the outbreak of World War II, Ernest Just was working at the Station Biologique in Roscoff, France, researching the paper that would become Unsolved Problems of General Biology.

Henry Boase

He was born at Madron on 3 June 1763, and in 1785 went from Penzance to Roscoff, in Brittany, in a fishing-boat, to proceed to Morlaix, where he stayed for some time, and acquired a knowledge of French.

Mihai Băcescu

He won a scholarship to France in 1939 and worked at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, at the Marine Biological Stations at Banyuls-sur-Mer and at Roscoff.

MV Pont-Aven

Prior to being named the Pont-Aven was referred to as Bretagne 2, this was then the codename for the new Brittany Ferries vessel for PlymouthRoscoff, the M/V Armorique.

Paul Rankin

In 1989 Paul Rankin changed the face of culinary Northern Ireland when he opened Roscoff, the restaurant that was to become the first to win a Michelin Star in the country.

Roscoff

The illustrator Henry Gerbault and his wife moved to Roscoff in 1919 and lived there the rest of their lives.

Symsagittifera roscoffensis

The species name comes from the French town where it was described, Roscoff, in Brittany.

The Stooping Venus

While Strathcrombie is in Paris on a business trip, Louise travels to Roscoff, France to visit her good friend Veronica Ashley, who is staying there with her family and several friends.


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