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Her looks are unique and stunning but, unlike most other yachts of her type, they also serve a function enabling her to cut through chop and blaze down the face of a following sea at high speed.
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Manannan will be the largest vessel of her type in the Irish Sea with a faster cruising speed than other ferries.
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The pleasure boat Lamma IV, and a high-speed ferry, the Sea Smooth, collided on 1 October last year.
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The mast was installed in April to measure wind speed, wave height and sea currents.
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Those first eager customers are expecting to get their hands on a plane that can fly up to 12 passengers more than 7, 400km (4, 600 miles) at speeds of up to 1, 700kph (1, 050mph), or 1.6 times the speed of sound, over sea and approved land corridors.
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But at 95 degrees Fahrenheit and 5, 352 feet above sea level, with no takeoff flaps, we needed more ground speed.
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The quake off Sumatra happened at around 0800 local time, causing a giant rupture in the sea bed, which set a huge body of water moving at a speed of up to 700kph.
ECONOMIST: Deluged without warning | The
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Like other Wall Street CEOs, Cayne sat by as Bear Stearns plowed ahead at full speed with no radar in the middle of the night in a sea dotted with icebergs.
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Dancing Brave had the greatest finishing speed as he proved in the 1986 Arc against the greatest field since Sea Bird.
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Named Moksha (meaning liberation in Sanskrit) the custom 26ft (8m) pedal boat had a top speed of three knots, was self-righting and held supplies for months at sea.
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The canceled Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle would have achieved high speed in the water by using a planing design that enabled the vehicle to ride on top of the sea.
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