In the waters around the British Isles and out into the Atlantic Ocean, operations against enemy shipping and submarines in support of the RN were mounted by RAF Coastal Command with large partol bombers and flying boats and land-based fighter-bombers.

It was assumed that Coastal Command was to keep sea communications open for merchant shipping and prevent seaborne raids on British coastlines and ports.

While merchant shipping was suffering these high losses, Coastal Command had proven ineffective at countering air or sea attacks on Allied shipping.

In the meantime, however, Coastal Command did operate with effect alongside RAF Bomber Command in disrupting enemy shipping during the Battle of Britain in 1940.

Coastal Command attacked shipping and mined waters around invasion ports.

In addition, there was a shipping company based on the river, formerly known as Lapthorn Shipping but then as Coastal Bulk Shipping, but it ceased trading at the end of 2008.

Coastal shipping also takes place, but the ice situation is too severe for at least half the year.

Coastal shipping continued to sail along marked routes and burn normal steaming lights.

Coastal shipping was still dominant for transport and the Bristol Channel ports of Bridgwater and Highbridge were about 18 miles away.

The shipping industry received support from Norwegian Coastal Administration and the plans were abandoned in 1974.

The valleys in the north and northeast are usually deep and narrow, but in the Coastal Plain they are broad and in most cases rise in three successive terraces above the stream.

The castle was classified as a protected historical monument by France in 1984 and most of the domain now belongs to the Coastal Protection Agency and is managed by the city of Hendaye.

The city centre and most of the suburbs are located on the sandy and relatively flat Swan Coastal Plain, which lies between the Darling Scarp and the Indian Ocean.

One of the most severe — known as the Coastal Road massacre — occurred on 11 March 1978.

During the late Roman Empire, several Roman provinces covered the territory that comprises present-day Bulgaria: Scythia ( Scythia Minor ), Moesia ( Upper and Lower ), Thrace, Macedonia ( First and Second ), Dacia ( Coastal and Inner, both south of Danube ), Dardania, Rhodope ( Roman province ) and Haemismontus, and had a mixed population of Byzantine Greeks, Thracians and Dacians, most of whom spoke either Greek or variants of Vulgar Latin.

Coastal areas are the windiest parts of the peninsula and they receive the most sunshine.

The southern third of the county between Philadelphia and Trenton, New Jersey, often called Lower Bucks, resides in the Atlantic Coastal Plain, and is flat and near sea level, and the county's most populated and industrialized area.

Due to the county's proximity to Virginia, the Carolina coast, and the Appalachian foothills, a wide variety of Southern American English dialects can be heard, with Virginia Piedmont, Coastal Southern, South Midland, and African American Vernacular English the most common.

Coastal upwelling is the best known type of upwelling, and the most closely related to human activities as it supports some of the most productive fisheries in the world.

* California Coastal Records Project, Stinson Beach-main beach and most of downtown from the air, 2004

The natural vegetation consists primarily of Coastal Sage Scrub, though much of this natural vegetation is visibly absent or exists in remnant form within the lowlands of the area where residential and agricultural uses are most prevalent.

Native plant communities include: coastal sage scrub, California Annual Grassland, and Coastal Dune Scrub species ; however, most native plants have been eliminated from within the city limits to make way for agriculture and urban and industrial development.

This difference is most dramatic in winter when average temperatures in the Northern Zone can be more than ten degrees Fahrenheit cooler than in the Coastal Zone.

This difference is most dramatic in winter when average temperatures in the Northern Zone can be more than ten degrees Fahrenheit cooler than in the Coastal Zone.

The localities or suburbs on the ' edge ' of the scarp are those that sit at its western edge, and in most cases command excellent views of the Swan Coastal Plain:

The Channel Islands were some of the most densely fortified areas in Europe with a host of Hohlgangsanlage tunnels, Casemates and Coastal artillery positions.

The main operations of Coastal Command were defensive, defending supply lines in the various theatres of war, most notably the Mediterranean, Middle East and African theatres and the battle of the Atlantic.

Coastal areas most often feature paved roads.

The Neotropical family Callichthyidae is found in most South American river drainages ( Paraná-Paraguay, São Francisco, Atlantic Coastal basins in Brazil, Amazon, Orinoco, Maracaibo, Magdalena ), as well as in a few rivers in Panama.

This activity was related to subsidence of the Texas Coastal Plain, most likely from the large amount of sediment deposited on it by Texas rivers.

One of the most prominent is the Coastal Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii ) forest, which includes Coast live oak, Tanoak, and California bay and reaches across the southern half of Inverness Ridge toward Bolinas Lagoon.

Houston is rarely regarded as a part of East Texas and is more closely associated with the Coastal Bend along the Gulf of Mexico ; as has been the case for most of the city's recent history.

Anoles are most abundant on the Atlantic Coastal Plains in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Georgia, and the Gulf Coast in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.

Coastal forests extending from British Columbia in the north to Oregon ( and the Rogue ) in the south are " some of the most productive in the world ".

A passenger ferry crosses the river between Hamble-le-Rice and Warsash, forming an important link in the Solent Way and E9 European Coastal Path.

On December 20, 2011 at 14: 50 ( 21: 50 UTC ), the Coastal Inspiration crashed into the Duke Point terminal causing minor injuries to one passenger and crew member.

The class are the first new passenger carriages to be entirely designed and built in New Zealand for many years and is under construction at KiwiRail's Hillside Workshops in Dunedin, with three cars entering service on the Coastal Pacific on 2 November 2011.

Coastal Air operates Cessna 402 and 404 nine passenger airplanes.

A Sunday service over the whole length of the Coastal route is set to operate on a one-off basis on Sunday 27 September 2009 ( first time a revenue earning passenger service has operated south of Whitehaven since May 1976 ) to celebrate the ACoRP Community Rail Festival which is being held in Carlisle over that weekend.

A freight rail line operated by the Massachusetts Coastal Railroad passes through the northeast corner of town.

Both Main Line and beginning of Coastal Line up to Kirkkonummi had only dual tracks to accommodate long-distance, freight and commuter trains.

Other parts of the former Old Colony Railroad system continue to be used for freight service by CSX and other short line railroads, including the Massachusetts Coastal Railroad which operates on Cape Cod and in southeastern Massachusetts.

Since 2008, the Massachusetts Coastal Railroad has taken over operation of the state-owned freight lines on Cape Cod from the Bay Colony Railroad.

This Railroad should not be confused with, although is affiliated with, the newly formed Massachusetts Coastal Railroad-the freight railroad that transports trash off of the Cape.