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unusual facts about Port of Bruges-Zeebrugge



Apollo-class cruiser

The Intrepid, Iphigenia and Thetis were expended on 23 April 1918 in the raid on Zeebrugge; the Brilliant and Sirius were unsuccessfully expended in the similar raid on Ostend.

Barbara Sturgeon

Among topics covered on the show were a debate on the Zeebrugge Inquiry, held following the 1987 Zeebrugge ferry disaster.

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.

Flemish Parliament

#Public works and transport: includes roads, ports (the Port of Antwerp, Port of Bruges-Zeebrugge, Port of Ghent and the Port of Ostend), the regional airports (including Antwerp International Airport and Ostend-Bruges International Airport), and urban and regional transport.

Fluxys

In 2004, it employed around 850 people and its infrastructure comprised about 3,700 km of pipelines and a terminal in Zeebrugge, Belgium.

Forges de Zeebrugge

Forges de Zeebrugge was initially founded as a munitions factory between Zeebrugge and Zwankendamme, in the 1930s, as a subsidiay of Carcoke.

Friedrich Christiansen

On 1 Sept 1917 he took command of Naval Air Station at Zeebrugge, and being promoted to Oberleutnant zur See, shot down a Porte FB2 Baby off Felixstowe the same day.

George Nicholson Bradford

He was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 22/23 April 1918 at Zeebrugge, Belgium, when commanding the naval storming parties embarked in HMS Iris II.

HM Coastal Motor Boat 4

Beckett was in command of a Divisional CMB attack on German destroyers at Zeebrugge on 7 April 1917; as a result one was sunk and one very seriously damaged.

HMS Daffodil

SS Royal Daffodil, a Mersey ferry requisitioned as HMS Daffodil for the Zeebrugge Raid in 1918

HMS Thetis

She was used as a minelayer from 1907 and was sunk in 1918 as a blockship at Zeebrugge.

MS Calais Seaways

Following a lay-up in Dunkirk, she was acquired by Stena Line in 1998, renamed Stena Royal and initially used on freight services between Dover and Zeebrugge on charter to P&O Stena Line.

MV Ark Futura

Between 2000 and 2011, as well as conuing on North Sea services, she was chartered out to a number of other operators, including Toll Shipping, between Melbourne and Burnie, Australia (during which she was transferred to the Isle of Man register), Cotunav (Genoa to Radès, Tunisia), Cobelfret ( between Zeebrugge and Purfleet), Acciona Trasmediterránea (Balearic services).

MV Atlantic Vision

On May of the same year Superfast IX, alongside her sister MS Superfast X, started a new service for Superfast, connecting Rosyth (Scotland) to Zeebrugge (Belgium).

Norman Augustus Finch

On 22/23 April 1918 at Zeebrugge, Belgium, Sergeant Finch was second in command of the pom-poms and Lewis gun in the foretop of HMS Vindictive.

Percy Thompson Dean

On 22 and 23 April 1918 at Zeebrugge, Belgium, after Intrepid and Iphigenia had been scuttled, their crews were taken off by Motor Launch 282 commanded by Lieutenant Dean.

Royal Daffodil

SS Royal Daffodil, originally a Mersey ferry named Daffodil, gained the Royal prefix after the Zeebrugge Raid on 1918

SM UB-18

who sailed her to Zeebrugge, arriving on 16 February, the first U-boat of the type to be based there.

SM UC-48

Unable to return to Zeebrugge, the boat was steered to El Ferrol, Spain, where she and her crew were interned for the rest of the war.

To Hull and Back

After getting lost in the North Sea again, the Trotters eventually find their way back to England by following the MV Norland, a ferry which goes from Zeebrugge to Hull.

Transport in Leeds

Leeds has good connections by road, rail and coach to Hull, only an hour away, from where it is possible to travel to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge by ferry services run by P&O Ferries.

TSS Duke of Connaught

She operated on the Douglas to Heysham route until 1930 when she was transferred to the Hull to Zeebrugge services.

Zeebrugge Raid

A bearing was taken from the buoy to the base of the mole at Zeebrugge by a ship sailing from the buoy to the mole despite a mist which reduced visibility to a mile and meant that the ship would advance dangerously close to German shore batteries.


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