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October 20, 2015

Video: Ferry crashes into ship-breaking yard

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When it came time to scrap the Pride of Calais, she went out in style.

After serving the Dover, England-Calais, France route across the English Channel for more than 20 years, the ferry was scrapped in 2013. Watch her dramatically enter the Turkish ship-breaking yard where she was dismantled.

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