Ten years ago this week the MV Joola, a passenger ferry, sank off the coast of Senegal.
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As the war raged on in the Caucasus, pro-Chechen gunmen hijacked a passenger ferry off Turkey's Black Sea coast.
The Scillonian III passenger ferry runs between March and November of each year.
There's a passenger ferry linking the two communities, and Shaldon Bridge for cars.
Would James Cameron have made his blockbuster film if the Titanic had been a common passenger ferry filled with common laborers?
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At sunset, passengers were bused from the French embassy to Beirut's port, where the Greek passenger ferry Yerapetra was waiting to take them away from the violence.
The scheme would see the refit of the Scillonian III passenger ferry, which sails for seven months of the year, and the Gry Maritha freight ship, managers said.
The Scillonian passenger ferry only runs seven months a year.
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Further south from Mobor, a trip across the languid Sal on a rust-bucket passenger ferry will take you to solace and solitude on magnificent Agonda Beach with its wide swathe of sand.
DHAKA, Bangladesh At least two people died and dozens were rescued after a passenger ferry collided with another ship and capsized Friday on a river in central Bangladesh, dumping as many as 100 people into the water, officials and witnesses said.
With these environmental concerns in mind, Van der Veen and his fellow Dutch captains Andreas Lackner and Jorne Langelaan set about building the Tres Hombres in 2007, using the hull of a former passenger ferry in the Aran Islands off the coast of Ireland.
Lord Berkeley tabled a question to government ministers on 25 June 2012, asking what action they were taking to create a passenger ferry link to the Isles of Scilly, which lie off the south-west tip of Cornwall, in line with the Scottish government's ferries policy.
His body was spotted 10 days later in the sea by a ferry passenger.
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Badiuzzaman Badal, president of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport and Passenger Service, said the ferry was carrying just over 50 passengers.
Bristol Ferry Boat Company went into administration last year but its five blue and yellow passenger boats were bought by a consortium of investors.
The new ferry is undergoing a major refit and refurbishment which includes a new ramp for vehicles and new passenger layout.
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