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ANCHOR. A measure containing ten gallons. Lex, Mereatoria.

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The ships weigh anchor and passengers are ferried to the port on small boats, but can be unwilling to make the trip in rough conditions and prefer to be able to step directly off the cruise liners.

Call for pounds 9m ports upgrade to exploit the cruise market

2 Weigh Anchor 3 Mister Baileys 4 King's Theatre 3 1 2 l, 1l, 1 3 4 l May 11, 1994 3 and under, plater; 4-5, lowgrade handicapper; 6-7, fair handicapper; 8-9, high-grade handicapper; 10-11, Group class; 12.

Five for fun

Veterans and onlookers also turned out to watch the frigates,minehunters and patrol craft from eight visiting nations prepare to weigh anchor.

Mersey's emotional farewell to Invincible

Weigh Anchor and Set Cell Germany's Hydra claims to be the first vessel powered entirely by fuel cells.

Positive Notes

One feels a surfeit of angst struggling to weigh anchor, as if Shinn were unleashing into one evening more melancholia than he truly knew what to do with.

OTHER PEOPLE

It is only fitting that - like the return of the Discovery to Dundee - the Britannia should also weigh anchor for the final time in the land of her birth.

OPINION: the voice of the people; Why we must never allow cameras to turn a trial into a farce

"Those companies that wish to sail at the head of the markets must weigh anchor from a mooring secured to value, namely the value proposition," the authors say.