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    The MV Manx Viking / Nindawayma was a passenger, truck and car ferry, whose last active service was on Lake Huron, operated by the Owen Sound Transportation...
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  • consolidating the two Manx businesses, and the Manx Line branding was retired. Manx Line operated only one vessel, the MV Manx Viking, which remained in...
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    Princess as their contribution to the new merged operation. However, the MV Manx Viking actually assumed the role, whilst trade union problems delayed the transfer...
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    Ben-my-Chree the previous winter. With the introduction of Manx Line's ro-ro service (operated by MV Manx Viking) between Douglas and Heysham, the inefficiency of...
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    MV Caroline was a passenger ferry originally operated by DFDS Seaways as MV Fredericia which later gained international recognition as an offshore radio...
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    London), and various places in Eastern Europe. Viking Age inscriptions have also been discovered on the Manx runestones on the Isle of Man. The last known...
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    MV Ben-my-Chree is a Ro-Pax vessel which was launched and entered service in 1998. The flagship of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, she primarily...
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  • rivalry to the Manx Line, Manx Viking. The company purchased her in December 1982 and renamed her Peveril. Competition from the rival Manx Line led to the...
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    Isle of Man Steam Packet Company (category Articles containing Manx-language text)
    from Manx Line's Manx Viking brought them close to collapse. In February 1985, they announced a merger with Sealink who had, by now, taken over Manx Line...
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    Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail...
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    MV Manxman is a new-build Ro-pax ferry which entered service with the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company (IoMSPCo) on 17 August 2023. The ship was ordered...
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    place of a cancelled Belfast sailing. Express also suffered damage while in Manx waters and P&O were forced to cancel a number of their own sailings as a...
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    revolutionary change with the arrival of Manxline and their multi-purpose vessel Manx Viking. It was apparent to the Steam Packet that in order to compete with their...
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    MV (RMS) Mona's Queen (V) Official No. 307621 was a car-ferry built in 1971–72 for the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. From 1972 to 1990, she operated...
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    MV Conister (II) No. 187114 was a cargo vessel operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, the second vessel in the Company's history to bear the...
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    MV Muirneag is a ro-ro freight ferry, built in 1979 as MV Mercandian Carrier. From 1986 to 2002, she was named MV Belard, serving initially across the...
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    related to IMO 7207451. Thornton, Nigel; Goodfellow, Ray (17 August 2012). "Mv Saint Eloi, Channel Entente, King Orry, Moby Love 2, Moby Love". Dover Ferry...
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    Isle of Man – The Bounty-Correspondence of Nessy and Peter Heywood. The Manx Experience. ISBN 1-873120-77-X. Wilson, Erle (1959). Adams of the Bounty...
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    MV Free Enterprise III was a Ro-Pax vessel built in 1966 as a cross-channel ferry, operated by Townsend Thoresen mainly on the Calais and Zeebrugge routes...
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    MV Ramsey was a coastal cargo vessel built for the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company in 1964. She was the last vessel specially built to serve the smaller...
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    Fletcher Christian (category Pitcairn Islands people of Manx descent)
    were the three sons of Charles Christian, an attorney-at-law descended from Manx gentry, and his wife Ann Dixon. Charles was heir of Moorland Close and of...
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  • MANNION United States MTS Mantrust Asahi Airways MANTRUST Indonesia MNX Manx Airlines MANX United Kingdom MAD Maple Air Services MAPLE AIR Canada MAR March Helicopters...
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    Celtic languages include Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Manx. Germanic (from Proto-Germanic), earliest attestations in runic inscriptions...
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  • 2021. "Manx Air Charters". Airline History. Retrieved 6 September 2021. "Manx Airlines (i)". Airline History. Retrieved 6 September 2021. Manx Airlines...
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    ship's whistle was retained by the company, and to the delight of lovers of Manx ships, was fitted to the car ferry Ben-my-Chree during her winter overhaul...
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    Service of Fleet, Maps Overseas Flights," The New York Times. 10 April 1949. "MV Antrim Princess (1967)". tynebuiltships.co.uk. Retrieved 29 April 2017. Kennedy...
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    This is a list of shipwrecks located in the United Kingdom. "MV Lagan (1903)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 20 October 2016. "Annie Jane". Wreck site. Retrieved...
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  • mismanagement of the fuel system. All seven people on board survived. 27 February – Manx Airlines Bristol Freighter G-AICS on a flight from the Isle of Man Airport...
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    Tingwall, in the Rendall area of the Orkney mainland. As well as this, the MV Golden Mariana connects the village of Pierowall on Westray with Papa Westray...
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    hitherto been allowed to expand to enormous numbers, and now threatened rare Manx shearwaters and human health; Canna is now rat-free. Some film footage that...
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