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Apollo's role as the slayer of the Python led to his association with battle and victory ; hence it became the Roman custom for a paean to be sung by an army on the march and before entering into battle, when a fleet left the harbour, and also after a victory had been won.
The two beaches are linked by part of the Fife Coastal Path which also takes you past the harbour and the Hawkcraig-a popular rock climbing location.
To speed up the construction works, the Polish government in November 1924 signed a contract with the French-Polish Consortium for Gdynia Seaport Construction, which by the end of 1925 had built a small seven-metre-deep harbour, the south pier, part of the north pier, a railway, and had also ordered the trans-shipment equipment.
Gallipoli became a major encampment for British and French forces in 1854 during the Crimean War, and the harbour was also a stopping-off point on the way to Constantinople.
The last harbour project began in 1896, but this also failed when structural problems and rising costs
The harbour village of Craster in Northumberland is also famed for its kippers, where they are prepared in a smokehouse, sold in the local shop and exported around the world.
Skånes dansteater is also active and plays contemporary dance repertory and present works by Swedish and international choreographers in their house in Malmö harbour.
The time for river ports had gone however, and most of them disappeared, facing particular pressure from the new rail ferries, In the 1980s, deregulation also involved and heavily changed the port industry, with harbour boards abolished, and replaced by more commercially-focussed companies.
Urban also established an arsenal in the Vatican, an arms factory at Tivoli and fortified the harbour of Civitavecchia.
The first non-Spanish settlement attempt in the Caribbean occurred on Saint Kitts, when French Huguenot refugees from the fishing town of Dieppe established a town on a harbour on the island's north coast, which they also named Dieppe, in 1538.
Britain also sent troops to protect British business enterprise, harbour rights, and consulate office.
An oil tanker also temporarily ran aground in the Dar Es Salaam harbour, damaging an oil pipeline.
The harbour also heralded the start of Porthleven's golden days of pilchard fishing.
It also ran a harbour in Åmmeberg to ship the zinc.
** In England, the city of Winchelsea on Romney Marsh is destroyed ; nearby Broomhill is also destroyed ; course of the nearby river Rother diverted to Rye ; cliff collapses at Hastings, blocking the harbour ; parts of Norfolk are flooded ; decline of the port of Dunwich in Suffolk is accelerated.
He also built Whitstable harbour in Kent in 1832, in connection with the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway with an unusual system for flushing out mud using a tidal reservoir.
The harbour is also used by domestic ferry services of Strandfaraskip Landsins within the Faroe Islands, chiefly on the route to Tvøroyri.
Several Allied ships were sunk in the overcrowded harbour, including the U. S. Liberty ship John Harvey, which was carrying mustard gas ; mustard gas was also reported to have been stacked on the quayside awaiting transport.
Arabic-Berbers ' arrival at the nearby Granitola mount in the VIII century entailed the resumption of commerce and the start of rebirth of the town, which was renamed Marsa ʿAlī " ʿAlī's harbour " or, maybe, Marsa ʿāliyy, " Big harbour ",-for the width of the ancient harbour, placed near Punta d ' Alga-or also Marsa Allāh, namely " God's harbour ", whence the current name.
From the same spot, the viewer can observe ships passing through the narrow channel of the historic Vido island ( Νησί Βίδου ) to the north, on their way to Corfu harbour ( Νέο Λιμάνι ), with high speed retractable aerofoil ferries from Igoumenitsa also cutting across the panorama.
Today this is the principal harbour installation of Nice – there is also a small port in the Carras district.
There are also areas of quicksand close to the harbour.
harbour and features
Another attraction is the local harbour, which features the Tolbooth, the town's tiny museum of local heritage.
Until 1784 most of the fortifications around Sevastopol were dedicated to the protection of the harbour entrance, the city itself and its naval base and were positioned close to these features.
The abbey ruin at the top of the east cliff is the town's oldest and most prominent landmark with the swing bridge across the River Esk and the harbour sheltered by the grade II listed east and west piers being other significant features.
The harbour wall, " The Cobb ", features in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion, and in the film and novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, by local writer John Fowles.
Old Port Royal features a cruise ship pier extending from a reconstructed Chocolata Hole harbour and Fisher's Row, a group of cafes and shops on the waterfront.
It features a hotel, two group accommodations, three camp sites and a small yacht harbour.
The harbour area has seafood restaurants and features an anti-tsunami barrier with an observation floor on top that offers a panoramic view of the city and the surrounding area.
The harbour features several sugar towers for loading locally produced sugar into transport ships, and a tower for loading flour for transport.
The suburb features harbour views, a few pockets of bushland, shops, restaurants and cafes, a harbour swimming pool with shark net.
The museum also features four other museum ships moored in the harbour outside: the ice breaker Sankt Erik ( launched 1915 ), the lightvessel Finngrundet ( 1903 ), the torpedo boat Spica ( 1966 ) and the rescue boat Bernhard Ingelsson ( 1944 ).
It features " old-time " streets with higgilty piggilty paths, beaches and Cairnbulg harbour, built in the 1920s as a single pier.
The harbour features a 258 metre quay which is a popular area for fishing and short leisurely walks ( especially in the case of tourists to the town ).
The seafront at Seamill features a long sandy beach, as well as rocky outcrops including the harbour at Portencross.
Northbridge features an 18-hole harbour view golf course, soccer club, sailing club, marina, salt water baths, scout hall, girl guides, tennis courts, parks, ovals, local reserves and bike track.
harbour and works
In 1910, the Rif having submitted, the Spaniards restarted the mines and undertook harbour works at Mar Chica, but hostilities broke out again in 1911.
It included the building of the Caledonian Canal along the Great Glen and redesign of sections of the Crinan Canal, some of new roads, over a thousand new bridges ( including the Craigellachie Bridge ), numerous harbour improvements ( including works at Aberdeen, Dundee, Peterhead, Wick, Portmahomack and Banff ), and 32 new churches.
Still marked by its industrial past, the politics is dominated by the Social Democratic Party, and the industry by the harbour and iron works.
Rapid development following the harbour works gave rise to an Edwardian precinct as merchant and shipping companies built in the west end and on reclaimed land.
The town's trade with the Anatolian coast and beyond the Levant sea was badly affected when in 1885, the then British government of the island began the Kyrenia harbour works that left the harbor wide open to the northern gales.
The harbour of Sevastopol, formed by the estuary of the Chernaya, was protected against attack by sea not only by the Russian war-vessels, afloat and sunken, but also by heavy granite forts on the south side and by the defensive works.
The town was covered by a line of works marked by a flagstaff and central bastions, and separated from the Redan by the inner harbour.
Historic harbour defence works dating from 1874 onwards survive at Ripapa Island in Lyttelton Harbour, and at Godley Head.
The town as it now exists was built in the 19th century as a harbour for Norway's longest existing iron works, Næs jernverk.
The role of Fort George in the defense of Halifax Harbour had evolved by the turn of the 20th century to becoming a command centre for other, more distant harbour defensive works, as well as providing barrack accommodations.
( His younger brother James would in fact become a noted engineer, helping complete the Buenos Aires harbour works in the 1880s and 1890s.
Andy is a working class figure who never actually works, living in Hartlepool, a harbour town in northeast England.
As of the 2000s, the islet is an uninhabited sea bird reserve, save for a single man who works the light house, manages the small emergency yacht harbour ( depth ca.
Sir George Cunningham Buchanan ( 20 April 1865 – 14 April 1940 ) was a British civil engineer particularly associated with harbour works in Burma, Iraq and Bombay, during the early years of the 20th century.
The harbour, constructed progressively during the 18th century, was extended and complemented by a dry dock in 1881 ( works designed by civil engineers Thomas Meik and Patrick Meik ).
It was an important town and port in the Middle Ages, but no harbour works seem to have been constructed until after 1812.
Railways, telegraphs, lighthouses, the harbour works at Suez, the breakwater at Alexandria, were carried out by some of the best contractors of Europe.
He prospered, and beginning in 1775 led a consortium of local shippers in the successful public works project of dredging and embanking the Malmö harbour.
The town was also founded in 1843 by order of Maria II of Portugal, and its harbour works were begun in 1903.
The line was laid to standard gauge from Martin Mill station and needed very little earth works until it reached the cliffs where terraces with a gradient of about 1 in 25 where cut into the cliff face to form a switch back path down to the harbour.
However, it also started to suffer from the toxic discharges the freezing works at Westfield and Southdown pumped into the local part of the harbour.
A number of Iron Age burials were discovered on the island in 1927 during works on the island's harbour.
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