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    MV Queen of Oak Bay is a double-ended C-class roll-on/roll-off ferry in the BC Ferries fleet, launched in 1981 at Victoria, British Columbia. The 139...
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    sustained only minor scraping to a rudder and propeller blade. See MV Queen of Oak Bay for extensive details on this accident. "Our Fleet | BC Ferries"...
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    MV Queen of the North was a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry built by AG Weser of Germany and operated by BC Ferries, which ran along an 18-hour route along...
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    ferries built that year, Queen of Alberni and Queen of Coquitlam, and was followed by Queen of Surrey and Queen of Oak Bay. The ship, like all C-class...
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  • BC Ferries (category Coast of British Columbia)
    Upgraded Queen of Oak Bay Returns to Service Archived July 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. Press Release. BC Ferries Corporation (June 30, 2005). Queen of Oak...
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    MV Queen of Coquitlam is a C-class ferry in the BC Ferries fleet, launched in 1976. She first operated on BC Ferries' Horseshoe Bay to Departure Bay route...
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    year, Queen of Coquitlam and Queen of Cowichan. Two additional C-class ferries, Queen of Surrey and Queen of Oak Bay, were built in 1981. Queen of Alberni...
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  • crashed into a concrete pier. Queen of Oak Bay, which drifted into a marina. MV Queen of the North, which ran aground. Sinking of MV Sewol, which capsized and...
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  • 2005, the Queen of Oak Bay lost power and drifted into Sewell's Marina, damaging 28 pleasure crafts and running aground near Horseshoe Bay. No injuries...
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    Photos of MV George S. Pearson (ex-Fox Island, ex-Wollochet). EvergreenFleet.com. Photo of MV Cy Peck. EvergreenFleet.com. Photos of MV Sechelt Queen (ex-Chinoook...
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    Steamship Authority (category Ferry companies of Massachusetts)
    approximately 45 minutes to both Vineyard Haven and Oak Bluffs. In early 2001, the SSA purchased the 130-foot (40 m) MV Schamonchi, along with the New Bedford-Martha's...
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    2007-05-14. "History of MV Coho and Black Ball Transport". Blackball Ferry Line. Retrieved April 18, 2013. William Rayner, Scandall!! 130 Years of Damnable Deeds...
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    Mallaig (category National scenic areas of Scotland)
    Armadale on the Isle of Skye, a 30-minute sailing operated by MV Loch Fyne and MV Lord of the Isles, the latter operating the morning service from Lochboisdale...
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  • deaths MV Rabaul Queen – (2 February 2012) 88–223 deaths MV Skagit – (18 July 2012) 150 deaths MV St. Thomas Aquinas – (16 August 2013) 137 deaths MV Sewol...
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  • and three oak trees from Windsor, England. King Edward VII – This monarch is commemorated by an oak and plaque near Brockton Pavilion. Queen Elizabeth...
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  • Retrieved 6 March 2017. "HOME – MV Lotus Foundation". MV Lotus Foundation. Retrieved 16 June 2019. "Last USCG Boat Placed in Front of Door County Maritime Museum"...
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  • of the Faroe Islands in rough weather. Her captain surrendered her and she was escorted to Scapa Flow. Used as a blockship there until HMS Royal Oak was...
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    view of Swartz Bay ferry terminal BC Ferries' MV Coastal Celebration docked at Swartz Bay terminal in May 2014 "Seaspan Reliant" at the Swartz Bay ferry...
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    MV Le Joola, 26 September 2002, Senegalese ferry, at least 1,863 dead. MV Rocknes, 19 January 2004, Dutch rock discharge vessel, capsized south of Bergen...
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    Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2014. "MV Seaforth (+1941)". Wrecksite.EU. Archived from the original on 10 November...
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  • November 2023. Chandler, Susan (9 November 2002). "Saks out, Bloomie's in at Oak Brook". Chicago Tribune. pp. 2–2. Retrieved 2 November 2023. "Saks Appeal...
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    presidents of the United States in the White House as the Oval Office desk, including the five most recent presidents. The desk was a gift from Queen Victoria...
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    fuel the development of bulk carriers on the Great Lakes. The early lakers often had a wooden hull, or a composite hull of an oak frame wrapped in iron...
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    Kidd received a royal commission from the Earl of Bellomont, the governor of New York, Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, to hunt down pirates and enemy...
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  • that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and...
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    Centre Block (redirect from Hall of Honour)
    for Ontario, pine cones, oak leaves, and acorns for Canada, and Tudor roses for Quebec. The remaining territorial coats of arms are located in the southeast...
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    Powell River (Earls Cove–Saltery Bay) ferry, it is about 9.5 nautical miles (17.6 km) long and is serviced by the MV Malaspina Sky. "BC Ferries Schedules:...
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    Northumberland Channel to Descanso Bay on Gabriola Island. The route is serviced by two ferries, the MV Island Gwawis and the MV Island Kwigwis, which can hold...
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    Günther Prien (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves)
    Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and the first member of the Kriegsmarine to receive the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany...
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    Davidson". Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. NOAA. "Monohansett". Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. NOAA. "Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general...
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