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unusual facts about passenger ferry



Hurtigruten Group

Hurtigruten Group is the sole operator of the Hurtigruten (literally "The Fast Route"), a daily passenger ferry, cruise, and shipping line along the western and northern Norwegian coast.


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Catalina Express

The Catalina Express is a passenger ferry services that operates scheduled passenger service between Avalon and Two Harbors on Santa Catalina Island and San Pedro, Long Beach and Dana Point on the California mainland.

CFB Cornwallis

The Dominion Atlantic Railway operated special troop trains to the base's station and also relied on scheduled passenger service, connecting with Canadian Pacific Railway passenger trains from Saint John, New Brunswick (recruits would then take a CPR passenger ferry across the Bay of Fundy to nearby Digby) as well as Canadian National Railways passenger trains at Truro and Halifax.

Flamanville, Manche

During the summer a high-speed passenger ferry is operated from there to Alderney and Guernsey by Manche Iles Express.

HMS Royal Scotsman

A former passenger ferry, she saw action in the Mediterranean during the invasions of North Africa (Operation Torch), Sicily and Italy.

Mangyongbong-92

The Mangyongbong-92, named after a hill near Pyongyang, is a passenger ferry built in 1992 to celebrate the North Korean leader, Kim Il Sung's 80th birthday.

MS Finnhansa

M/S Finnhansa (1966), a 7820-GRT passenger ferry now named M/S Princesa Marissa

MS Madeleine

The MS Madeleine is a car/passenger ferry owned and operated by C.T.M.A. between Souris and Cap-aux-Meules.

Penelakut Island

There is frequent car and passenger ferry service to Penelakut from Chemainus on Vancouver Island.

Pünderich–Traben-Trarbach railway

At the 6.8 km point is Kövenig station, where in the summer months, a passenger ferry runs to Enkirch on the opposite bank.

Safety culture

Such reports include the Piper Alpha oil-platform explosion (Cullen, 1990), the 1987 Kings Cross underground station fire (Fennel, 1988), and the sinking of the MS Herald of Free Enterprise passenger ferry (Sheen, 1987).

SeaLink Travel Group

The SeaLink Travel Group is a group of companies including Kangaroo Island SeaLink, which operates vehicle and passenger ferry services to Kangaroo Island.

Starcross

Starcross railway station is situated on the railway, and the Starcross to Exmouth Ferry, a small passenger ferry, operates across the estuary to Exmouth.

Ulverston Canal

A passenger ferry to Liverpool thus commenced from Ulverston canal in 1835, which was later complemented by a service from Barrow-in-Furness to Fleetwood.

Wisconsin Highway 42

The Gills Rock ferry is a passenger-only ferry, where the one at Northport is an auto, freight and passenger ferry.