• Bristol Packet Boat Trips is a limited company offering public and charter excursions in Bristol Harbour and on the River Avon. The company has four boats:...
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    Tower Belle (category Tourist attractions in Bristol)
    passenger boat based in Bristol Harbour in England. The vessel is operated by the Bristol Packet Boat Trips company on pleasure and educational trips in the...
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    landing at the Great Britain to the new harbour inlet opposite. Bristol Packet Boat Trips offer regular harbour tours with commentaries and river cruises...
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    sites serve Bristol. The city centre has water transport operated by Bristol Ferry Boats, Bristol Packet Boat Trips and Number Seven Boat Trips, providing...
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  • services formerly operated by the Bristol Ferry Boat Company were transferred to a new operator, Number Seven Boat Trips. This company also operates daily...
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  • 1879. "Shipbuilding, Trial Trips, Etc". Marine Engineering News. London: 11–14. 1 April 1879. "New Steamer for Hull". Hull Packet. No. 4880. Hull. 28 February...
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  • London. 19 July 1880. "Local News". Bristol Mercury. No. 10038. Bristol. 17 July 1880. "Launches and Trial Trips". Marine Engineering News. London: 134–39...
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  • & Co. She was launched in February 1858 as a packet ship and ferry for the Hayle and Bristol Steam Packet Company. Sleek and painted white, with two funnels...
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    since the 1930s, but it is still possible for boats to proceed as far as Netham weir with care. The Bristol Docks Company was formed to construct the Floating...
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    The St George Steam Packet Company – also referred to as the Liverpool and Isle of Man Steam Packet Company or the St George Steamship Company – was a...
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    from the continent as well as for pleasure trips to the Kent coast by Londoners. The first steam passenger boat to have been built on the Thames, the Regent...
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    delivered to be part of the "Queen Line" fleet of the New Medway Steam Packet Company based at Rochester, Kent. She steamed on routes from Strood and...
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    construction. She spent her working life as one of the "Clyde sludge boats", making regular trips from Shieldhall in Glasgow, Scotland, down the River Clyde and...
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  • Scillonian III Description on Hearts of Oak The Penzance/Isles of Scilly Mail Packets. UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark,...
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  • Water Witch (1835 steamer) (category Packet boat)
    the Bideford-based North Devon Steam Packet Company in February 1849, connecting Bideford and Barnstaple with Bristol through separate weekly services to...
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    Banksy (category Artists from Bristol)
    streets, walls, and bridges throughout the world. His work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians...
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  • Manthey, who runs a dining boat business in Tampa, Florida with paddle boat operations on the Mississippi, and Brian Bristol, both nephews of Joy Manthey...
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    Windermere Lake Cruises is a boat company which provides leisure trips on Windermere in the central part of the English Lake District. It is based in...
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    Charles Wood in 1840 for The British & North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, Glasgow, Passenger / Cargo". www.clydeships.co.uk. Retrieved 20...
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    and five days later the other three steamers were sold to Bristol Channel Passenger Boats Ltd. The Barry Railway had spent £104,470 to acquire the four...
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    and by night. Migrants took passage on freight boats, camping on deck or on top of crates. Packet boats, serving passengers exclusively, reached speeds...
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  • February 1857. "Ship Launch". Bristol Mercury. No. 3488. Bristol. 24 January 1857. "Launch of a Screw Steamer". Hull Packet. No. 3760. Hull. 30 January...
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    SS Great Britain (category Ships built in Bristol)
    213-foot (65 m) English Channel packet ship Rainbow—the largest iron-hulled ship then in service—made a stop at Bristol. Brunel despatched his associates...
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    transatlantic steamer services was the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, better known as the Cunard Line in recognition of its founder,...
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  • large mercantile business at 110 S Front St., soon after starting the first packet line of ships to sail regularly between Philadelphia and London. Fisher's...
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  • original on 2016-09-21. Retrieved 24 September 2016. "Trips on Lucy Lavers". Rescue Wooden Boats. Retrieved 26 July 2017. "History of LV21". LV21. 15 December...
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  • generation of similar ships. The British & North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company started its year-round Liverpool-Halifax-Boston service in 1840...
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    Waterman can also be a person who navigates a boat carrying passengers. These boats were often rowing boat or boats with sails. Over the years watermen acquired...
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    by Reily Products who have discontinued the inclusion of a separate salt packet. In 1967, Shelby marketed a men's grooming product, the "Carroll Shelby's...
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  • boarded packets to visit relatives or solely for a relaxing excursion. Emigrants took passage on freight boats camping on deck or on top of crates. Packet boats...
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