At Calais in 1902, a figure in an Inverness cape transferred to a Channel ferry.
On 11 June 2012 a bid by the company for three Channel ferries belonging to the former operator SeaFrance (in liquidation) for lease to another operator was accepted.
After capture, the gun was exhibited in Paris before being removed to England, via a Channel ferry.
Shooting took place almost entirely in London, England, with some scenes shot in a cross-English Channel ferry in the fifth episode.
A wild chase back to the Channel ferry follows but all sorts of hold-ups, including problems with the customs men, prevent them from getting to the ship and the girls in time.
The trial of a British shipping company and seven employees, charged with manslaughter after a Channel ferry capsized and killed 192 people in 1987, ended abruptly today when the judge ruled that the prosecution had failed to produce sufficient evidence.
Sir Lancelot was decommissioned and sold in 1989 to the South African company Lowline; she was renamed Lowland Lancer, and was used as a Channel ferry, then a floating casino.
Today, she will swim some 10 miles, back and forth across the harbor where the huge Channel ferries come and go.
IF, despite all impediments, the Channel Tunnel opens in 1993, then this is the last year for Channel ferries to make hay.
Norman Spirit is currently the only Channel ferry to have fully reclinable seats.