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The Dover Patrol and later known as the Dover Patrol Force was a Royal Navy command of the First World War, notable for its involvement in the Zeebrugge Raid on 22 April 1918. The Dover Patrol formed a discrete unit of the Royal Navy based at Dover and Dunkirk for the duration of the First World War.
HMS Intrepid was an Apollo-class protected cruiser of the Royal Navy built on the River Clyde and launched in 1891. She was subsequently converted as a minelayer in the latter half of her career and ultimately sunk as a blockship during the Zeebrugge Raid on 23 April 1918.
On 23 April 1918, the Dover Patrol conducted the Zeebrugge Raid and sank block ships in the canal entrance to stop U-boats leaving port. [40] The Belgian Army and the British Second Army began the Fifth Battle of Ypres on 28 September 1918 and on 17 October, Ostend was captured.
The third vessel was the ill-fated Herald of Free Enterprise that capsized off the port of Zeebrugge in the late 1980s. During 1998, P&O Stena chartered Stena Royal for use on the Dover-Zeebrugge freight service. The ship was later renamed and refitted P&OSL Aquitaine.
P&O European Ferries (formerly Townsend Thoresen), a division of P&O Ferries, was a ferry company which operated in the English Channel from 1987 after the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster, when Townsend Thoresen was renamed P&O European Ferries, until 1999 when the Portsmouth Operations became P&O Portsmouth and the Dover Operations were merged with Stena Line AB to make P&O Stena Line.
Dover-Zeebrugge Cairnryan-Larne Sold to Sungi Budi 7204291 Pride of Ailsa (1992–1996) Pride of Sandwich (1987–1992) Free Enterprise VI E (1987) 1987 1996 12,503 1,035 Dover-Zeebrugge Cairnryan-Larne Sold to El Salam Maritime. Lost 2005 7010509 Pride of Hythe (1988–1993) Free Enterprise V E (1987–1988) 1987 1993 5,044 1,132 Sold 6728563
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Millville is located at (38.5495569, –75.1232391), [4] approximately 1 mile (2 km) west of the Atlantic Ocean and about 1 mile (2 km) south of Indian RiverIt is contiguous on the east with Ocean View, and bordered on the north, west and south by unincorporated portions of Sussex County.