<p>This is the largest vessel to use Poole harbour. 
This sequence shows the docking procedure at Poole Quay, about a mile or more from where I was standing. 
It pulls alongside the quay facing the direction it arrived - I assume to let off foot passengers? 
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About twenty minutes later the tugs turn it round so vehicles can disembark from the rear.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/76592037@N00">Ian Kirk</a> from Broadstone, Dorset, UK
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