the Straits of Dover

It was able to make the journey across the Straits of Dover in around three hours.

It had been at anchor a long time out here in the Straits of Dover.

They were particularly successful in the Straits of Dover.

There is a marked passage in spring through the Straits of Dover.

Adding that he expected the Allies to subsequently attack in force across the Straits of Dover.

The cliffs themselves were formed at the same time as the Straits of Dover, by ice-age floods.

The Channel can be rough and so can the Straits of Dover.

"Not in the Straits of Dover, we can't.

"You would just hand over the Straits of Dover to the Germans, would you?

During that night Galatea was sent to patrol the Straits of Dover but made no contact with the enemy.

The Army wanted a broad front from the Straits of Dover to Lyme Bay.

Airy was doubtless led to this investigation by his study of the tidal phenomena in the Straits of Dover.

After clearing the Straits of Dover she encountered stormy weather in the English Channel.

On 29 July 1940 she was caught in an air raid off the Kent coast in the Straits of Dover.

France, too, had suffered damage, and as far away as the Straits of Dover shipping had been in trouble, the losses unknown.

The coastal plain where the North Downs meet the Straits of Dover has been of strategic importance since ancient times.

The English Channel, here at its narrowest point in the Straits of Dover, is the busiest shipping lane in the world.

The Allies continued to try to block access through the Straits of Dover, with the Dover Barrage.

The Straits of Dover were closed by minefields, naval and air patrols, radar, and effective bombing raids on enemy ports.

As we left the North Sea and passed through the Straits of Dover into the English Channel, Bill was in seventh heaven.

Although this would have been possible across the Straits of Dover, it would not have been practicable in the case of the Atlantic.

These ships, along with a strong escort of smaller craft, were entering the Straits of Dover when Esmonde received his orders.

With France visible across the Straits of Dover, the town became an important transit point for those travelling from the UK to the Continent.

She will go this way," he says, indicating a length of red yarn stretched in a north-northeasterly direction, "assuming she avoids the Straits of Dover."

Well, that vague track is the ancient British road, as old as anything in this Island, that took men from Winchester to the Straits of Dover.