1.   Captain Dunzelman, who also doubles as operations manager for the small ferry line, said service has been suspended only six days over the last five years.

2.   Italian state radio said the vans had arrived from the Grand Canal on a small ferry that the men had forced to land at the edge of the square.

3.   The small ferry would also not be able to quickly evacuate visitors and residents in the event of a hurricane, he said.

4.   The waters abound with horse mackerel and round herring, and a small ferry carries anglers to a breakwater jutting out into the Sea of Japan.

5.   A small ferry cuts across its bow.

6.   The scheme included taking a commercial airline flight to Malaysia, a small ferry to Indonesia and a fishing boat to Australia, van Gessel said.

7.   A small ferry boat carrying an unspecified number of passengers sank in southern Bangladesh after hitting a river sand island in night fog, officials said Monday.

8.   A small ferry boat with nine people aboard has smashed into a breakwater in western Japan, killing two men and injuring seven, police said Sunday.

9.   Cross-channel ferries were widely disrupted Thursday due to a strike by French seamen protesting the use of non-EU crew by a small British ferry operator.

10.   The strikers, protesting the use of non-EU crews by a small British ferry firm, had called for a two-day strike.