Ferry Sentence Examples

It is connected by ferry with South Portland.

Not even a ferry, a scow or other boat could move in the harbour.

They crossed the ferry where he had talked with Pierre the year before.

Barton appears in Domesday, when the ferry over the Humber existed.

The architecture was fantastic, but not near as exciting as the ride on a ferry.

You forget that death comes to the rich and the poor alike, and comes once for all; but remember, Acheron could not be bribed by gold to ferry the crafty Prometheus back to the sunlit world.

The sun had sunk half below the horizon and an evening frost was starring the puddles near the ferry, but Pierre and Andrew, to the astonishment of the footmen, coachmen, and ferrymen, still stood on the raft and talked.

It is served by the Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard Air line, the Southern, the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Norfolk & Western, the Norfolk & Southern and the Virginian railways, by many steamship lines, by ferry to Portsmouth (immediately opposite), Newport News, Old Point Comfort and Hampton, and by electric lines to several neighbouring towns.

In 1873 the village was incorporated as Greenburgh, from the township of the same name which in 1788 had been set apart from the manor of Phillipsburgh; but the name Dobbs Ferry was soon resumed.

He promised to return in an hour and ferry the group back to Bird Song, which was less than a mile away.

There is a ferry service available if you want to take your car over to the island.

It is a rapidly growing town, immediately opposite and suburban to the city of Sydney, with which, however, the only connexion is by steam ferry.

Before the erection of the Tay Bridge the town was the scene of much traffic, as the railway ferry from Tayport was then the customary access to Dundee from the south.

Near the ferry are a row of long parallel cuttings in the rock, which must be remains of the ancient docks, each being intended to take a ship.

A ferry plies across the Danube to the Bulgarian fortress of Nicopolis.

Even so, more by chance than intentionally, Buell's leading division was opposite the Landing, awaiting only a ferry, on the evening before the battle; Grant, however, declined to allow it to cross, as he thought that there would be no fighting for some days.

It is served by the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern, the Oregon & Washington, and the Spokane, Portland & Seattle railways, and by steamship lines, being accessible to sea-going vessels; a ferry connects with the Portland Electric railway.

From the landing stage a short street leads into the broad Avenue Jules Ferry or de la Marine running east to west and ending in the Place de la Residence, on the north side of which is the Roman Catholic cathedral and on the south side the palace of the French resident-general, with a large garden.

The Avenue Jules Ferry is intersected by a north-to south street running in a straight line over two miles.

The largest output of each of these ores in 1908 was in Stevens county; Ferry, King and Okanogan counties ranked next in the output of gold; Okanogan and Ferry counties in the output of silver; Okanogan in the output of copper; and King in the output of lead.

Nickel has been found near Keller in Ferry county, and molybdenum near Davenport, Lincoln (disambiguation)|Lincoln county.

Colombo was originally known as the Kalantotta or Kalany ferry.

The last-named connects with the main line at Ludington, Michigan, by means of a railway ferry across Lake Michigan; the Grand Trunk has a railway ferry from Milwaukee to Grand Haven.

Staten Island is connected by ferry with the borough of Manhattan, 5 m.

Appointed senator for life in 1875, he took his place among the moderate republicans, and from September 1880 to November 1881 was minister of foreign affairs in the cabinet of Jules Ferry.

The old man, Liam, had fed her and given her a handful of euro coins before putting her on the ferry.

A steam ferry connects it with Calafat, on the Rumanian bank of the Danube, and there is a branch railway to Mezdra, on the main line Sofia-Plevna.

He was called to the Parisian bar, and became private secretary to Jules Ferry in the prefecture of the Seine.

His intimate friend, Governor Letcher, appreciating his gifts, sent him as a colonel of infantry to Harper's Ferry, where the first collision with the Union forces was hourly expected.

During this early period was known variously as Ferryhook, Ashley's Ferry and Van der Heyden's Ferry.

A steam railway ferry connects it with the island railway on Riigen, and so with Sassnitz, whence a regular steamboat mail service affords communication with Trelleborg in Sweden.

At the ferry on the Malatia-Kharput road (cuneiform inscription) it flows eastwards in a valley about a quarter of a mile wide, but soon afterwards enters a remarkable gorge, and forces its way through Mount Taurus in a succession of rapids and cataracts.

It is served by the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe railway systems, both transcontinental; and is connected by electric lines (and ferry) with San Francisco, and by five electric lines with Oakland.

The name of the village was derived from a Swede, Jeremiah Dobbs, whose family probably moved hither from Delaware, and who at the beginning of the last quarter of the 18th century had a skiff ferry, which was kept up by his family for a century afterwards.

The region was repeatedly raided by camp followers of each army; earthworks and a fort, commanding the Hudson ferry and the ferry to Paramus, New Jersey, were built; the British army made Dobbs Ferry a rendezvous, after the battle of White Plains, in November 1776, and the continental division under General Benjamin Lincoln was here at the end of January 1777.

The American army under Washington encamped near Dobbs Ferry on the 4th of July 1781, and started thence for Yorktown in the following month.

In 1764 a new post route between New York and Philadelphia passed through what is now the city, and direct ferry communication began with New York.

Fallieres (1883), retaining the same office in the second Jules Ferry ministry (1883-1885).

Ferry boats ply frequently between Pembroke Dock and Neyland on the opposite shore of the Haven.

Owing to its healthy and convenient situation, Broughty Ferry has become a favourite residence of Dundee merchants.

An electric street railway connects all the outlying districts with the ferry stations of Praia Grande and Sao Domingos.

In 1753 his son established a ferry over the river, and the place was called Harris's Ferry until 1785, when the younger Harris laid out the town and named it Harrisburg.

Three weeks later the forces under Banks were being driven over the Potomac at Harper's Ferry, and Jackson was master of the Valley.

By this time he had already entered into politics; he had been chef du cabinet of Jules Ferry (1879-1881), though this did not distract him from his literary work.

With the Canadian shore Buffalo is connected by ferry, and by the International bridge (from Squaw Island), which cost $1,500,000 and was completed in 1873.

A steam ferry connects with the Rangoon-Mandalay line, and the steamers of the Irrawaddy Flotilla.

There was formerly a ferry here, as there are at two other points.

The Kilif ferry is on the direct high-road between Samarkand and Akcha.

The ferry had long disappeared, and with it a considerable slice of the riverside alluvial soil, which had been washed into the stream by the action of floods.

Jules Ferry's colonial policy and of the Opportunist party, and in 1885 it was his use of the Tongking disaster which principally determined the fall of the Ferry cabinet.

The railway here crosses a great bridge on to the small Masnedo, whence there is a ferry to Orehoved on Falster island, a link in the direct route between Copenhagen and Berlin.

Pottery is made in almost every village, from the small vessels required in cooking to the large jars used for storing grain and occasionally as floats to ferry persons across a swollen stream.

The town is connected by a steam ferry with Kingswear on the opposite bank, which is served by a branch of the Great Western railway.

Ferries ply at frequent intervals between numerous points on its west waterfront and points in Manhattan; there is also ferry connexion with Jersey City.

The principal business thoroughfare is Fulton Street, which begins at Fulton ferry nearly under the Brooklyn bridge, runs to City Hall Park, and thence across the north central section of the borough.

In 1642 a ferry was established across East river from the present foot of Fulton Street, and a settlement grew up here which was known as The Ferry.

In 1878 the old Monks Ferry station on the Great Western system was superseded by the opening of the Woodside passenger station, and a few years later the Birkenhead town station was opened.

The system extends from Rock Ferry and Park stations on the Cheshire side to the low-level at Central Station in Liverpool, and has connexions on the Cheshire side with the Great Western, NorthWestern, Wirral and various local lines.

Woodside Ferry may still be regarded as the principal entrance to Birkenhead and the Wirral from Liverpool.

In 1897 the corporation further acquired the rights over the Rock Ferry and the New Ferry at the southern end of the town.

Just a road leading to the small parking area and a closed ticket booth for the ferry.

Ferry's ministry, and retained the post till 1885.

It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford, and the Rhode Island Suburban railways, and is connected with the island of Rhode Island by ferry.

It is connected with Neusatz on the opposite bank by a bridge of boats, a railway bridge and a steam ferry.

Ferries over the Redewynd were subjects of royal grant in 1340 and 1399; the abbot built a new bridge over the Bourne in 1333, and wholly maintained the bridge over the Thames when it replaced the 14th century ferry.

The principal points on the shores are Glengyle, formerly a fastness of the Macgregors, the Trossachs, the Goblins' Cave on Ben Venue, and Stronachlachar (Gaelic, "the mason's nose"), from which there is a ferry to Coilachra on the opposite side.

P. Hill was at Harper's Ferry, but had received orders to rejoin Lee.

The same principles were carried out by Jules Ferry (1880) and Paul Bert (1881-1882).

Virginia, and with it the Federal navy yard at Norfolk and the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, was controlled by the rebels.

On the i 3 th of September Jackson was besieging i 1,000 Federals in Harper's Ferry, Longstreet was at Hagerstown, Stuart's cavalry holding the passes of the South Mountain, while McClellan's whole army lay at Frederick.

On the following day Harper's Ferry capitulated after a weak defence.

The ironclad ram "Albemarle," built at Edwards' Ferry on the Roanoke river, had done considerable damage to the Federal vessels which, since Burnside's expedition to Newberne, had cruised in Albemarle Sound, and in 1864 a force of double-enders and gunboats, under Captain Melancton Smith, U.S.N., was given the special task of destroying the rebel ram.

This latter route began at Inglis's Ferry, on the New river, in what is now West Virginia, and proceeded west by south to the Cumberland Gap. The " Wilderness Road," as marked by Daniel Boone in 1775, was a mere trail, running from the Watauga settlement in east Tennessee to the Cumberland Gap, and thence by way of what are now Crab Orchard, Danville and Bardstown, to the Falls of the Ohio, and was passable only for men and horses until 1795, when the state made it a wagon road.

They were dispersed again by the revolution of July 1830, but soon reappeared and, though put to much inconvenience during the latter years of Louis Philippe's reign, notably in 1845, maintained their footing, recovered the right to teach freely after the revolution of 1848, and gradually became the leading educational and ecclesiastical power in France, notably under the Second Empire, till they were once more expelled by the Ferry laws of 1880, though they quietly returned since the execution of those measures.

It is served by the Kanawha & Michigan (Ohio Central Lines) and the Hocking Valley railways, and (at Gallipolis Ferry, West Virginia, across the Ohio) by the Baltimore & Ohio railway.

A ferry serves New Holland, on the Lincolnshire shore (Great Central railway).

Fishkill Landing is served by the New York Central & Hudson River and the New York, New Haven & Hartford railways; by railway ferry and passenger ferries to Newburgh, connecting with the West Shore railway; by river steamboats and by electric railway to Matteawan.

It has railway communication with both south and north, and a steam ferry connects with Middelfart, a seaside resort and railway station on Fiinen.

Pike-perch and a few blue pike are taken in the Susquehanna, where shad are no longer plentiful since work was begun on McCall's Ferry dam, and in 1908 the entire catch for the river was valued at about $20,000, but in the Delaware there are valuable shad 'and herring fisheries.

After serving as assistant first at Ancrum, then at Lochwinnoch, he was called to Cardross in Dumbartonshire in 1859, and to Broughty Ferry in 1868.

He died on the 7th of August 1899, and was buried at Broughty Ferry.

The northern and southern provinces are further connected by the lines Amsterdam - Zaandam (1878) - Enkhuizen (1885), whence there is a steam ferry across the Zuider Zee to Stavoren, from where the railway is continued to Leeuwarden (1883-1885); the Netherlands Central railway, Utrecht - AmersfoortZwoole - Kampen (1863); and the line Utrecht - 's Hertogenbosch (1868-1869) which is continued southward into Belgium by the lines bought in 1898 from the Grand Central Belge railway, namely, via Tilburg to Turnhout (1867), and via Eindhoven (1866) to Hasselt.

The personal history of Lee is lost in the history In 1859, while at Arlington on leave, he was summoned to cornof the great crisis of America's national life; friends and foes mand the United States troops sent to deal with the John alike acknowledged the purity of his motives, the virtues of his Brown raid on Harper's Ferry.

It is served by the West Shore (which here crosses Rondout Creek on a high bridge), the New York Ontario & Western, the Ulster & Delaware, and the Wallkill Valley railways, by a ferry across the river to Rhinecliff, where connexion is made with the New York Central & Hudson River railroad, and by steamboat lines to New York, Albany and other river points.

It was his duty to ferry over the Styx (or Acheron) those souls of the deceased who had duly received the rites of burial, in payment for which service he received an obol, which was placed in the mouth of the corpse.

It has a station on the Rangoon-Mandalay railway, and is the junction for the line to Maymyo and the Kunlong ferry and for the Sagaing-Myitkyina railway.

His supporters were in a large majority, and on the reassembling of the chamber, the Ferry cabinet quickly resigned.

A United States arsenal and armoury were established at Harper's Ferry in 1796, the site being chosen because of the good water-power; these were seized on the 16th of October 1859 by John Brown, the abolitionist, and some 21 of his followers.

The first settlement here was made about 1747 by Robert Harper, who ran a ferry across the Potomac. The position of Harper's Ferry at the lower end of the Shenandoah Valley rendered it a place of strategic importance during the Civil War.

Johnston thought that the place was unimportant, and withdrew when (15th June) the Federal forces under General Robert Patterson and Colonel Lew Wallace approached, and Harper's Ferry was again occupied by a Federal garrison.

Jackson rejoined Lee on the following day in time to take part in the battle of Antietam, and after the battle General McClellan placed a strong garrison (the 12th Corps) at Harper's Ferry.

Harper's Ferry was seriously damaged by a flood in the Shenandoah in October 1878.

The overthrow of Jules Ferry and the danger of war with France made a good understanding with Great Britain of more importance.

Opposite the town, and connected with it by Bodeneck Ferry, is the village of Polruan.

A steamer leaves Naples every night for Palermo, and vice versa, the journey (208 m.) being done in I I hours, while the journey by rail (438 m.), including the crossing of the Straits of Messina takes 191 hours; and the weekly steamer from Naples to Messina (216 m.) takes 12 hours, while the journey by rail and ferry boat (292 m.) takes 14 hours.

The strait crossed by the Nyborg-Korsor ferry is the Great Belt which divides the Fiinen from the Zealand group, and is continued south by the LangeIands Belt, which washes the straight eastern shore of that island, and north by the Samso Belt, named from an island 15 m.

Near the junction of the Surkhan with the Oxus are the ruins of the ancient city of Termez, on the northern or Bokharan bank, and the ferry at Pata Kesar (not far from the ruins of an old bridge) is the connecting link between Bokhara and Mazar hereabouts.

At Airatan, a little above the Pata Kesar ferry, there are ruins, as also at Khisht Tapa (where the road from Kabadian to Tashkurghan leaves the river) and at Kalukh Tapa.

Flatbush was for a few years immediately preceding 1675 the largest; but Brooklyn was the first (1646) to have a township organization, and within a few years Wallabout, Gowanus, The Ferry, and Bedford - a new settlement to the south-east of Wallabout, established in 1662 - were included within its jurisdiction.

Subsequently he was in command of the Harper's Ferry garrison at the time of Early's raid upon Washington and made a brilliant defence of his post (July 4-5, 1864).

In conjunction with the railway service there is a steamboat ferry to Stavoren in Friesland.

Under the excitement following the raid on Harper's Ferry he became temporarily insane, and for several weeks was confined in an asylum in Utica.

A ferry connects the island with Stralsund, and from the landing-stage at Altefahr a railway traverses the island, passing the capital Bergen to Sassnitz, on the north-east coast.

The first is connected by ferry with the European railway system; the second with the great sea routes from Smyrna to Trieste, Marseilles and Liverpool.

There is also an hourly ferry service to Alexandria, and at irregular intervals there are boats direct to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston.

Until the opening of the Forth bridge, its commodious harbour was the northern station of the ferry across the firth from Granton, 5 m.

Cowbridge (Pontyfon) and Ludchurch (Eglwys Llwyd), others are of direct external origin, as Bishopstone, Flemingstone, Butter Hill, Briton Ferry, Manselfield, &c. Names derived straight from an Anglo-Norman source are rare; Beaupre, Beaumaris, Beaufort, Fleur-de-Lis, Roche, may be cited as examples of such.

There is communication by ferry with South Uist.

The first white settler was David McKee, who established a ferry here in 1769.

The ferry is noticed in a charter in the 12th century.

West of the zoological gardens is the point of junction of the Blue and White Niles and here is a ferry across to Omdurman (q.v.) on the west bank of the White Nile a mile or two below Khartum.

It drew its main revenues from tolls levied at the Mersey ferry; and its prior sat in the parliament of the earls of Chester, enjoying all the dignities and privileges of a Palatinate baron.

On the north and north-east, and partly on the east, Birkenhead is bounded by its docks, which extend, for a distance exceeding 2 m., from the landing-stage at Woodside Ferry to the Wallasey Bridge.

At Kinuachdrach there is a ferry to Aird in Lorne, in Argyllshire, and at Faolin there is a ferry to Port Askaig in Islay.

In Golden Gate Park is a museum owned by the city with exhibits of a wide range, including history, ethnology, natural history, the fine arts, &c. Very fine mineral exhibits by the State Mining Bureau, and California Agricultural and Pacific Coast commercial displays by the CaliforniaDevelopment Board, are housed in the Ferry Building, and there is a Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park.

The harbour docks and adjacent railways (which exceed 20 m.) are owned and administered by a harbour trust of 26 members, of whom one is the owner of the Briton Ferry estate (Earl Jersey), 4 represent the lord of the seigniory of Gower (the duke of Beaufort), 12 are proprietary members and 9 are elected annually by the corporation of Swansea.

Its status was only that of a "creek" in the port of Cardiff till 1685, when it was made an independent port with jurisdiction over Newton (now Porthcawl), Neath or Briton Ferry and South Burry, its limits being defined in 1847 as extending from Nash Point on the east to Whitford Point on the west, but in 1904 Port Talbot, which was included in this area, was made into a separate port.

It is quite certain that steam launches could ply over very long sections of the river above that, perhaps as far as the Kaw ferry, or even the Kunlong ferry.

In British territory, however, there are very few settlements on the river itself, and frequently the ferry villages are built loon ft.

These are short but fair-sized streams. Near the Kunlong ferry the Nam Nim, on the right bank, and the Nam Ting, on the left, are considerably longer, and the Nam Ting is navigable by native craft for considerable stretches up to Meng Ting and farther.

In Bonner county there are great mills at Sand Point and at Bonner's Ferry.

The Dyfi, here a mile broad, is crossed by a ferry to Borth sands, whence a road leads to Aberystwyth.

The eastern terminals of the southern and western lines running from New York City are situated on the western shore of the Hudson river, in Weehawken, Hoboken or Jersey City; whence passengers and freight are carried by ferry to New York.

At Redstone, the site of a former important ferry over the Severn, is a curious hermitage, excavated out of the red sandstone bank.

A second town, laid out in 1764, by Colonel John Campbell (with the permission of the commandant at Fort Pitt), is bounded in the present city by Water Street, Market Street, Second Avenue and Ferry Street, and comprises four blocks.

In September 1880 he became minister, and again in April 1885, passing almost immediately to the ministry of finance, which he held under both the Ferry and the Freycinet administrations until December 1886.

Martins Ferry was incorporated as a town in 1865 and chartered as a city in 1885.

It was linked by a ferry at Celeiu to two lesser roads; one striking northwards into Transylvania, up the Olt valley, the other bending westwards until it reached the Jiu, and there diverging southwards to Turnu Severin, and northwards to the Vulcan Pass.

The situation of the church, within five minutes' walk of the chief ferry to New York, the stalwart character of the man who had organized it, and the peculiar eloquence of Beecher, combined to make the pulpit a national platform.

Nyack is served by the Northern Railroad of New Jersey (a branch of the Erie), and is connected by ferry with Tarrytown, nearly opposite, on the eastern bank of the Hudson.

He was strongly opposed to the project of a Channel tunnel to France, and in 1872 he endeavoured to obtain the consent of parliament to a Channel ferry scheme, whereby trains were to be transported across the strait in large ferry steamers.

He resigned in 1882, and in February 1883 became minister of foreign affairs in the Jules Ferry cabinet, but retired in November of the same year.

In 1890 he was elected vice-president of the Senate, and in 1893 succeeded Jules Ferry as its president.

A settlement was made here in 1681, and for a time the place was known as Prigmore's Swamp; later, after John Inian had established a ferry across the river, it was called Inian's Ferry; the present name was adopted in honour of the house of Brunswick.

Guanabacoa is served by railway to Havana, with which it is connected by the Regla ferry across the bay.

The Green Bay & Western railway between Winona and Kewaunee has ferry connexion across Lake Michigan.

At present Kunlong ferry is little used, and the village was burnt by Kachins in 1893.

A steam ferry crosses the Lough to Greencastle, for Kilkeel, and the southern watering-places of county Down.

Other navigable streams are the Waccamaw, to Bucksville (50 m.); the Great Pedee to Smith's Mills (52 m.); the Cooper, to Strawberry Ferry (30 m.); the Ashley, to Lambs (13 m.); the Edisto, to Guignard Landing (260 m.); the South Edisto, to the North Edisto (11 m.); the Beaufort, to the Coosaw River (11 m.); and the Santee, to the confluence of the Congaree and Wateree rivers, which are navigable for flatboats.

The Great Central railway connects the west, Sheffield and Doncaster with Grimsby, and with Hull by ferry from New Holland.

In the baronial outbreak of 1173 Roger Mowbray, who had inherited the Isle of Axholme from Nigel d'Albini, garrisoned Ferry East, or Kinnard's Ferry, and Axholme against the king, and, after the destruction of their more northern fortresses in this campaign, Epworth in Axholme became the principal seat of the Mowbrays.

The first action was fought at Brown's Ferry in the Wauhatchie valley, where Hooker executed with complete precision a plan for the revictualling of Chattanooga, established himself near Wauhatchie on the 28th, and repulsed a determined attack on the same night.

The bay is divided into an outer part and an inner lagoon (the Back Strand) by a spit of sand, with a strait, crossed by a ferry at its eastern extremity.

She became regent when Spain had felt the consequences of the expulsion of the Jesuits and other religious orders from France after the famous Jules Ferry laws, which aimed at placing these orders more under state control, to which they declined to submit.

Communication is maintained by means of a steam ferry.

Ballachulish and Port Appin are ports of call for steamers, and the Caledonian railway company's branch line from Connel Ferry to Ballachulish runs through the coast land and has stations at Creagan, Appin, Duror, Kentallen and Ballachulish Ferry.

It is situated at one of the most important crossings of the Euphrates, where there was, in ancient times, a bridge of boats, and is now a ferry on the road from Aleppo to Urfa, Diarbekr and Mosul.

The ferry over an unusually deep and narrow part of the Euphrates has been used from time immemorial in the passage from North Syria to Haran (Charrae), Edessa and North Mesopotamia, and was second in importance only to that at Thapsacus, by which crossed the route to Babylon and South Mesopotamia.

She stepped off the ferry and stood in a mostly empty parking lot, wondering how the hell to get to civilization from there.

In 1859 John Brown led a party of 21 men in a successful attack on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry.

The summer ferry service has been greatly augmented in recent years.

Four men then barricaded themselves inside the ferry with two other ships blockaded in the port.

Some tavernas do not open until the end of May, most beach cantinas are closed and ferry services can be few.

In addition to regular ferry traffic the volume of general and bulk cargo has increased continually over the past years.

The ferry back was a modern luxury fast catamaran, with really, really nice toilets.

The already colossal party of four was increased yet again at Aust Ferry where the Tucks joined us.

We don't want to become a haulage contractor operating in competition with our ferry customers who collect and deliver their own freight.

Another resident reported that youths congregate in the old cowshed near the Ferry Loch.

The Patricia Olivia - high speed ferry, operates twelve crossings daily with a duration of less than 35 minutes.

There are also frequent ferry crossings from the UK to France from various ports on the south coast of England.

Growth in long-distance traffic offset a decline in the traditional cross-Channel market, tho Eurotunnel claimed it held its own against the ferry operators.

Ferry Ferries are used across rivers and estuaries, usually where there were no bridges, to avoid considerable detours.

The ferry has left and you are still dithering on the jetty.

Each ferry also has a bar serving alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and a snack and food bar.

Getting around Shetland isn't difficult; we have excellent roads and you'll find our bus and ferry services surprisingly economical.

At Grove Ferry, more treated sewage effluent arrives via pipeline from Herne Bay.

One-day excursions At The Kings Ferry we know how difficult it can be to organize the simplest of day out.

There was a small problem, however, how to raise the money for the ferry boat fare.

Portsmouth DAY TWO - SUNDAY Early rising, in time to catch the fast ferry from Portsmouth to Caen.

By the time I was on the high-speed ferry to Southampton, I had a rather distressing vision problem.

Meet your Contiki crew as we drive to the White Cliffs of Dover for our cross-Channel ferry to France.

Orkney Islands Council convener, Hugh Halcro-Johnston, performed the metal cutting ceremony on the 125-metre ro-ro ferry Hrossey.

From here, we will join an inter-island ferry to Wellington - New Zealand's capital city.

The livestock contract has now been included as part of the lifeline ferry services which are currently out to tender.

The irradiated fuel was carried in steel flasks on the vehicle deck of the ferry alongside passenger cars.

Ferry Box monitors phytoplankton levels by measuring chlorophyll fluorescence.

In the ferry mission extended wing tips were added to the aircraft, the ' combat tips ' being stored in the rear fuselage.

The bridge is a big iron girder affair, built in 1907 to replace a ferry.

A sixth distinct place is the outlying hamlet of Felixstowe Ferry on the Deben; St Nicholas is here.

Day 10 Hurghada to Dahab - We catch the morning hydrofoil ferry for the short hop across the Red Sea to the Sinai Peninsula.

Despite its mechanical ingenuity the ferry was never a commercial success principally due to insufficient traffic.

The Skyros Shipping Company runs an all-year ferry operated by the islanders themselves.

The freight ferry would allow islanders to travel with vehicles weighing far more than those currently allowed.

A little further south, meet the regular ferry to the enchanted isle of Arran.

The public launching jetty, it is best not to use the ferry jetty.

But the saddest victim of the new car ferry was the handsome 1937 paddler Jupiter.

We returned to the ferry port and tried to catch some kip under the stars in the car park.

For the next seven years Willie waited faithfully at the ferry landing for his owner to return.

Owston Ferry Castle is an ancient scheduled monument which is also a Local Nature Reserve.

You can book your ferry online, ferry operators websites can be found here.

If those sites were nearly perfect, Little Ferry must be the Promised Land.

I was hoping for my next family, diving petrels, from this ferry!

The route in front of the Woolwich Arsenal by the site for the ferry pier ought to be marked for cyclists.

We are only three minutes by car from the Holyhead ferry port or train station.

A night porter will greet you whatever time you arrive or help you to catch a night or early ferry.

And now, with the option of overnight sailing you can sleep on the ferry and arrive feeling refreshed and ready to explore!

More than 80 weekly ferry sailings connect with UK ports.

In just 20 years, this once sleepy fishing village, only accessible by ferry from Lanzarote has expanded beyond compare.

The existing slipway, originally part of the Greenwich Steam Ferry, will also be retained.

The inspiration faded and I stopped being trendy, skulking away one December morning to the Dieppe ferry with my last tenner.

Upon reaching the ferry terminal turn left onto High Street.

Or go greener... The carbon cost of traveling by ferry is around 30 times less than air travel.

Getting to Venice is straightforward, parking on the mainland and then taking a vaporetto or ferry.

It has original jurisdiction in cases of habeas corpus, mandamus and prohibition, and appellate jurisdiction in cases involving a greater amount than one hundred dollars; concerning title or boundary of lands, probate of wills; the appointment or qualification of personal representatives, guardians, curators, committees, &c.; concerning a mill, roadway, ferry or landing; the right of a corporation or county to levy tolls or taxes; in cases of quo warranto, habeas corpus, mandamus, certiorari and prohibition, and all others involving freedom or the constitutionalit y of a law; in criminal cases where there has been a conviction for felony or misdemeanour in a circuit, criminal or intermediate court; and in cases relating to the public revenues.

This assurance, dictated by Jules Ferry to Barthlmy Saint Hilaire in the presence of the Italian ambassador, and by him telegraphed en ci air to Rome, was considered a binding pledge that France would not materially alter the status quo in Tunisia.

Because Dobbs Ferry had been a part of Philipse Manor all lands in it were declared forfeit at the time of the War of American Independence (see Yonkers), and new titles were derived from the commissioners of forfeitures.

The place derived its name from its use by the earls of Fife as a ferry to the opposite shore of Haddington, 8 m.

The Neath Canal, from the upper part of the Vale of Neath to Briton Ferry (13 m.) passes through the town, which is also connected with Swansea by another canal.

They reached a river that had overflowed its banks and which they had to cross by ferry.

The main village, clustered around the ferry key has about 30 houses.

And now, with the option of overnight sailing you can sleep on the ferry and arrive feeling refreshed and ready to explore !

The day marked the maiden voyage of the first roll-on roll-off ferry to serve the county, changing the lives of everyone involved.

In the 1950s the Eastern Docks started to be developed for the growing roll-on roll-off car ferry services.

Ferry - Scandinavian Seaways sail into Newcastle (2 hours drive from Edinburgh) from Germany, Sweden and Holland.

The Port of Esbjerg is where you get the DFDS Seaways ferry from Denmark bound for Harwich in the UK.

The pier here is the terminus for the passenger ferry to Fair Isle.

In the morning we take the ferry to the West Bank to explore the tombs of the Pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings.

There is access by foot or bicycle along the tow path which starts by the Penny Ferry pub.

Optional crossing to Glenelg on Scotland 's last turntable ferry - fabulous views....

After unbolting the cover, the units can be withdrawn with the ferry afloat.

The same characteristics of gently sloping, firm sand and minimal silt deposits were the prerequisites for a vehicular ferry.

Local watermen made small fortunes charging $ 5 an hour to ferry sight-seers among the anchored warships.

Wrecks The best wreck dive in the area is the Maverick, a former ferry, sunk on 4 April 1997.

San Francisco Architecture with the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, the Ferry Building, a cable car, the Conservatory of Flowers, and California wine country.

The island is accessible by ferry from Alexandria Bay or from Rockport and Ivy Lea, Ontario Canada.

The ship is required to tender (ferry passengers) in Catalina, but the pleasant ride and welcoming atmosphere of the island are both enjoyable.

From the famous monorail to a spacious ferry boat, there are many ways to travel to and through the Magic Kingdom.

You will need to take a ferry to Ellis Island.

The ferry runs every 40 minutes, every day except Christmas day.

Your only cost will be the ferry rate and if you decide to do the audio tour.

After going through Customs at the docks, they would be transferred by ferry to Ellis Island.

To contact the Institute, visit online at wifh.com, call (404) 832-0300, or arrange a consultation at 975 Johnson Ferry Road, Suite 460.

The idea of a bridge connecting San Francisco with Marin County (then only connected by ferry) was conceived in 1917.

Prior to the Bay Bridge, people headed here to catch a ferry to Oakland.

There's still ferry service but there's also the Ferry Building Marketplace.

For the best water tour available, hop on over to Gate E on the pier and board the Ferry Building Line located adjacent to the old Ferry Building.

Even the kids will enjoy a Ferry Line cruise.

If a ferry ride doesn't seem too exhilarating, you can use a cruise ship as a transportation portal between fun and more fun.

The Blue and Gold ferry boat sails to Alcatraz Island and under the Golden Gate Bridge for a fun, ninety-minute adventure.

The Blue and Gold ferry boat sails to Alcatraz Island on weekends only during the winter.

Be sure and get there early since the ferry tickets sell quickly during warm sunny days.

So, if you purchase your tickets and get distracted by the sea lions or shopping for the perfect gift for Aunt Jane at Pier 39, you can always come back and take your ferry ride at a later date.

Passengers with special needs are welcome on Blue & Gold ferry vessels.

Light snacks and drinks (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic) are sold in the snack bar on the ferry, but all that "on-the-water adventure" will probably leave you hungry.

The only link between San Francisco and Marin County was a much overburdened ferry system.

Each ferry only held about 70 vehicles, causing long waits on the northern side as cars waited to board the ferry and come south to San Francisco.

Golden Gate Transit is San Francisco's transportation district, which operates the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Ferry, as well as the city's bus routes.

A second division of the transit system is the Golden Gate Ferry which, like the bridge, helps transport daily users.

After an account has been successfully opened, customers can add electronic cash via a website, by phone or at the freestanding "Add Value Machines" located near the ferry.

Unlike the ferry that often stops operations on major holidays, the buses usually run on an adapted schedule.

Check out this rotisserie truck on Thursdays and Saturdays in the morning and through lunch at the Ferry Building Marketplace.

The only way to access the island is via ferry boats, which leave the piers along the Embarcadero.

A guide will greet you as you disembark from your ferry from Fisherman's Wharf and show you some of the sites on the grounds, like the lighthouse, the power plant and the infamous guard tower.

If you have a mobility issue, you can take a tram up the steep path that leads from ferry dock to the prison buildings.

This district is known for the huge Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market that is host to over 100 farmers and 30 vendors.

Located on the Embarcadero across the street from the iconic Ferry Building Marketplace, the Hotel Vitale is situated in an incredibly beautiful area of the city that is easy to access.

What's more, the Ferry Building, one of the most popular attractions in the city, is a world-class marketplace where you can find some of the most eclectic foods and gifts in town.

That day on the ferry was the most perfect day in my life.

Frank Stranahan built the house in 1906 as part of his barge ferry business.

During the show's fourth season, his storyline with the amnesiac ferry victim drew rave reviews.

The third season episodes included a landmark three party event focusing on the tragedy of a ferry boat accident.

Venice is linked by ferry to Greece and the Middle East.

Among Hong Kong's most famous sights are the Tian Tan Buddha on Lantau Island; the star ferry, which traverses Hong Kong harbor every seven minutes; and the horse racing at Happy Valley.

If you are traveling with older children, then consider taking a Fort Sumter tour which includes dinner and a ferry ride around Charleston Harbor.

Participants take a ferry to arrive at the remote location, and the drive consists of lots of mud, water, woods, and hills.

Forsey and Schiff approached Billy Idol and Bryan Ferry to record the song, but both refused.

As he was about to leave, Brandon Westlake returned with Cynthia and, being sympathetic to his labors, volunteered to ferry the returning swimmers back to Bird Song.

The lone two people on her ferry got into a car and left.

At the general elections of 1881 after the fall of the Ferry cabinet he was returned to the chamber on a programme which included the separation of Church and State, a policy of decentralization, and the imposition of an income-tax.

He then joined Gambetta's cabinet as minister of commerce and the colonies, and in the 1883-85 cabinet of Jules Ferry he held the same office.

Further, every city had its own octroi duties, customs, ferry dues, highway and water rates.

It is served by the Chicago & North-Western, and the Wisconsin Central railways; by ferry across the lake to Frankfort, Mich., and Ludington, Mich.; by the Ann Arbor and the Pere Marquette railways; and by the Goodrich line of lake steamers.

It is served directly by the Chesapeake & Ohio railway, and indirectly by the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk (Pennsylvania System), passengers and freight being carried by steamer from the terminus at Cape Charles; by steamboat lines connecting with the principal cities along the Atlantic coast, and with cities along the James river; by ferry, connecting with Norfolk and Portsmouth; and by electric railway (3 m.) to Hampton and (1 2 m.) to Newport News.

Dobbs Ferry is served by the Hudson River division of the New York Central railway.

He held the same portfolio in the first Freycinet ministry (1879-1880) and in the Jules Ferry cabinet (1880-1881).

The County Council maintains a free ferry at Woolwich for passengers and vehicular traffic. The capital expenditure on this undertaking was £185,337 and the expense of maintenance in1907-1908£20,881.

Remains of Roman villas are found in Southwark, which was evidently a portion of Londinium, and it therefore hardly seems likely that a bridge-building people such as the Romans would remain contented with a ferry.

Hence, when in 1850 a hydraulic installation was required for a new ferry station at New Holland, on the Humber estuary, the absence of water mains of any kind, coupled with the prohibitive cost of a special reservoir owing to the character of the soil, impelled him to invent a fresh piece of apparatus, the "accumulator," which consists of a large cylinder containing a piston that can be loaded to give any desired pressure, the water being pumped in below it by a steam-engine or other prime mover.

P. Hill's troops newly arrived from Harper's Ferry.

Eleven thousand Federals, surrounded in Harper's Ferry, were forced to surrender, and Jackson rejoined Lee just in time to oppose McClellan's advance.

Having become senator for the department of Doubs (1895-1902), Rambaud held the position of minister of Public Instruction from 1896 to 1898, and in that capacity endeavoured to carry on the educational work of Jules Ferry, to whose memory he always remained faithful.

He dedicated to his former chief a book (Jules Ferry, 1903), which is a valuable testimony to the efforts made by France to organize public education and found a colonial empire; but this fidelity also won him some enemies, who succeeded for some time in preventing him from becoming a member of the Institute.

The Ferry Museum, founded by Clinton P. Ferry, has interesting historical and ethnological collections.

It is perhaps the best-used ferry on the Oxus.

A lifting bridge at the wharf-end, which the ferry approached stern on, enabled accurate connection of rails at all suites of the tide, the process of embarking a train requiring ordinarily not more than 15 minutes.

Calafat is an important centre of the grain trade, and is connected by a branch line with the principal Walachian railways, and by a steam ferry with Vidin.

With the old man's help, she caught the last ferry across the channel just before sunset.

Documents subsequently published have somewhat attenuated the responsibility of Ferry and Saint Hilaire for this breach of faith, and have shown that the French forces in Tunisia acted upon secret instructions from General Farre, minister of war in the Ferry cabinet, who pursued a policy diametrically opposed to the official declarations made by the premier and the foreign minister.

Further, a powerful ice-breaker is used to ferry trains across from Listvinichnoe to Misovaya.

The Caledonian railway enters the town from the south-west by a bridge across the river, and also owns a ferry to South Alloa, on the opposite shore, in Stirlingshire.

The upper reaches are nowhere fordable between Tadum and Lhasa, but there is a ferry at Likche (opposite Tadum on the southern bank), where wooden boats covered with hide effect the necessary connexion between the two banks and ensure the passage of the Nepal trade.

The Janglam takes a circuitous course southwards to Gyantse and the Yamdok Cho before dropping again over the Khambala pass to the ferry at Khamba barje near Chushul.

Before the building of the Forth Bridge the customary approach to Fifeshire and the north-east of Scotland was by means of a steam ferry from Granton to Burntisland, which is still used to some extent.

These suburbs are connected with the city, some by railway, some by steam, cable and electric tramways, and others by ferry across Port Jackson.

It is the point of departure and arrival of the steam ferry to Nyborg on Fiinen, lying on the Hamburg, Schleswig, Fredericia and Copenhagen route.

He would also ferry them back when the auction was finished, hauling home the spoils of the sale.

One more piece of unfinished business was put to rest when Dean arranged for two young friends of DeLeo to ferry Fred's rental car back to Scranton.