Breaking News - Pride of Kent aground

• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
  • Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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  10 December 2017     13:32336935
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  Calais port closed. All traffic transferred to Dunkirk.
  
  http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2017/12/10/97001-20171210FILWWW00067-port-de-calais-un-ferry-s-echoue-trafic-interrompu.php
  "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
  • Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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  10 December 2017     13:34336937
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  https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/890496/Calais-P-O-ferry-port-crash-Storm-Ana-weather-alert-winds-France
  "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
  • Registered: 8 Oct 2012
  • Posts: 8,167
  10 December 2017     13:38336938
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  Whoops!
  
  

  
  "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
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  10 December 2017     13:48336939
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  "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
  • Posts: 23,940
  10 December 2017     14:05336942
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  https://scontent.flhr3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/24991107_10215562114710790_2996935257568831238_n.jpg?oh=587ef3e4f63bcc608a30cc4f9a95aee6&oe=5AD2FE7A
• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
  • Registered: 8 Oct 2012
  • Posts: 8,167
  10 December 2017     14:09336943
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  If you 'zoom in' on Calais Port you can follow developments here:- https://www.vesselfinder.com/
  
  'Click' on vessel and picture comes up on LHS.
  
  Then click on 'track' to see previous movement.
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  "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 5 Jul 2010
  • Posts: 13,895
  10 December 2017     15:02336947
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  Just on the news she has been re-floated and the 300 passengers to be transferred to another ship.
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• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  11 December 2017     10:20336970
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  Unsurprisingly ferries are subject to 90 minutes delay due to the weather.
• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
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  • Posts: 8,167
  11 December 2017     10:45336972
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   howard mcsweeney1 wrote:

  Unsurprisingly ferries are subject to 90 minutes delay due to the weather.

  
  
  Often the delays are due to the 'wether'.
  
  Wether or not the French are on strike!
  "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson