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"When they were in the RMT fleet, those ships were able to manage the passage to Dover in 3.5 hours.  The main route to Dover was rather more straightforward than the route to Ramsgate, but nevertheless these RMT ships were quite fast.  The slower Reine Astrid (Stena Nordica) took substantially longer, possibly as much as 5 hours.\n \n\n\n\tWhen Pride of Calais spent her brief spell on the Ramsgate route she didn't used to take the sandbank-threading route that was normal for the smaller members of the fleet.  She used to take the longer (but safer and far less precarious) route along the West Hinder TSS to the Wandelaar pilot station before heading down through the main deep-water appraoch to Ostend through the gap in the sandbanks at Oostendebank East.  But even at her speed the journey took 4 hours.\n "
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