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See Truckline's ship from the seventies ... an early Poole freight ferry whose name lives on ...
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Before cross-channel passenger ferries from Poole ... there were day charters to Cherbourg in the eighties ...
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This classic cruise liner was an unexpected visitor to Portland in 2017 ... in 2020 she departed UK for the final time ...
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