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Phare de Tyne South Pier
Le phare de Tyne South Pier (ou Phare de la jetée sud de Tyne) est un phare de port situé au bout de la longue jetée sud de l'entrée de la rivière Tyne à South Shields dans le comté du Tyne and Wear en Angleterre. Il est géré par les autorités portuaires de Port of Tyne (en) avec plusieurs autres phares du port.
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MS Oslofjord (1937)
MS Oslofjord was an ocean liner built in 1938 by A/G Weser Shipbuilders, Bremen, Germany, for Norwegian America Line. She was of 18,673 gross register tons and could carry 860 passengers. She would have an uneventful career until 1939 were two separate incidents happened. One from 27 April 1939, where she collided with an American pilot boat, and another where she struck a mine sinking her.
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River Tyne
The River Tyne is a river in North East England. Its length (excluding tributaries) is 73 miles (118 km). It is formed by the North Tyne and the South Tyne, which converge at Warden near Hexham in Northumberland at a place dubbed 'The Meeting of the Waters'.
The Tyne Rivers Trust measure the whole Tyne catchment as 2,936 km2 (1,134 square miles), containing 4,399 km (2,733 miles) of waterways.
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Black Middens
The Black Middens is a reef at the mouth of the River Tyne in North East England, noted for the danger it poses to shipping.
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Tyne Turrets
The Tyne Turrets were two 12-inch Mk VIII guns from the battleship HMS Illustrious, installed in Roberts Battery at Hartley, near Seaton Sluice north of the Tyne, and Kitchener Battery in Marsden near Lizard Point south of the river. The batteries were planned in World War I but only commissioned in 1921, and after a change of heart scrapped in 1926. This very heavy armament was only rivalled by the Dover harbour Admiralty Pier Turret at the time.
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Tynemouth Metro station
Tynemouth is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the coastal town of Tynemouth, North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It joined the network as a terminus station on 11 August 1980, following the opening of the first phase of the network, between Haymarket and Tynemouth via Four Lane Ends.