Off the coast of Cherbourg, France, the Confederate raider CSS Alabama loses a ship-to-ship duel with the USS Kearsarge and sinks to the floor of the Atlantic, ending an illustrious career that saw some68 Union merchant vessel 在法国瑟堡海岸,南方联邦军舰阿拉巴马号在与北方联邦军舰克萨哥号的决斗中被击败,沉入大西洋底,结束了见证大约68艘联邦商船被南方联邦军舰毁坏或者捕获的光辉生涯。
cherbourg
[ noun ] a port town in northwestern France on the English Channel; site of a naval base <noun.location>
Hoverspeed Great Britain was designed to carry 90 cars and 450 passengers across the English Channel between Portstmouth, England and Cherbourg, France.
The French vessel ignored orders to head for Guernsey and made for Cherbourg with three of the boarding party still aboard. The men were not given the chance to leave, although they were not threatened with any violence, the UK fisheries ministry said.
Ferry voyages between Portsmouth, England, and Cherbourg, France now take nearly five hours.
A brawl broke out on a ferry crossing the English Channel, and the crew was forced to return to port at Cherbourg where 13 young British men were arrested, French immigration police said Sunday.
Jacques Demy, the French master of musical comedies best known for his 1963 film "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg," has died of a brain hemorrhage brought on by leukemia, associates said Sunday.