nautical

Interior scenes for nautical soap Howard's Way and All Creatures Great and Small, though set in coastal and rural locations respectively, were also filmed at Pebble Mill.

Since it was taken out of service last year, MV Hebridean Isles has been painstakingly stripped of anything useful including items destined for a museum, a public garden and a nautical training college.

The port also faces challenges because of its position on the St. Lawrence River, about 1,000 nautical miles from the Atlantic Ocean.

In March, customs officers at an airport in Qingdao seized a batch of 143 nautical charts that contained "obvious errors" in the national borders.

After nine days traversing 2,500 nautical miles, pitching on swells from Hurricane Erin, the Canadian-flagged Nunalik had reached its destination—30 minutes late.