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the San Francisco Bay Area will have a new direct rail to ferry connection when the Hercules intermodal rail station and WETA ferry terminal is constructed?
the Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard ferry , Sankaty , set fire to the famous whaler Charles W. Morgan before being commissioned as a minelayer by the Royal Canadian Navy ?
the Chester-Hadlyme Ferry is the second oldest continuously operating ferry service in the United States ?
the Lynchburg Ferry in Lynchburg, Texas is the oldest operating ferry service in Texas ?
when she was launched in 1956 MF Storegut (pictured) was the largest lake ferry in Northern Europe ?
three days after a fire gutted the passenger ferry Levina 1 , killing at least 49, she sank with a party of journalists and investigators on board, killing at least one more?
the Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel Helix Producer 1 servicing at the Deepwater Horizon site was formerly a RORO ferry ?
the ferry Nobska of Nantucket Sound was America 's last coastal steamer ?
Washington State Route 339 is actually a ferry route?
Empire Cedric , a former Landing Ship, Tank , was the first Ro-Ro ferry ?
Captain Charles Fryatt was executed by the Germans for trying to ram U-33 in March 1915 with his ferry SS Brussels ?
in 2005, the newly-upgraded RORO ferry Queen of Oak Bay lost power and crashed into a marina , damaging or destroying 28 other vessels?
on 28 November 1968 the Finnish ferries MS Ilmatar and MS Botnia collided in the Åland archipelago, resulting in the death of six people?
Bristol and South Wales Union Railway was actually two separate railway lines with a ferry crossing of the River Severn between?
More interesting facts on Ferry
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Question 1 : A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in ________ , is sometimes called a water
bus or water
taxi .
Question 2 : The ferry shown right is ferry MV Magogoni used in ________ .
Question 3 : ________ ferries (RORO) are
large, conventional ferries named for the ease by which vehicles
can board and leave.
Question 4 : A cruiseferry is
a ship that combines the features of a ________ with a RoRo ferry.
Question 7 : In Australia, two Spirit of Tasmania ferries carry
passengers and vehicles 300 kilometres across ________ , which
separates Tasmania from
the Australian mainland.
Question 8 : In many ways, these ferries
are like ________ , but they can also carry hundreds of cars on car decks.
Question 10 : In 2008, ________ launched three of the largest
double-ended ferries in the world.