Nacqueville
District of Urville-Nacqueville
Normandy - France

CSS Alabama

CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead, United Kingdom, in 1862 by John Laird Sons and Company. Alabama served as a successful commerce raider, attacking Union merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career, during which she never anchored in a Southern port. She was sunk in battle by the USS Kearsarge in June 1864 at the Battle of Cherbourg outside the port of Cherbourg, France.

Located at 49.7525, -1.695 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6 miles away.
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Mersey-built ships, Cruisers of the Confederate States Navy, Shipwrecks in the English Channel, Alabama in the American Civil War, Maritime incidents in 1864, Archaeological sites in France, Commerce raiders, 1862 ships, CSS Alabama, Shipwrecks of the American Civil War

La Hague

La Hague is a region on the tip of the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, France. La Hague is a picturesque place of Precambrian granite cliffs, coves and small fields surrounded by hedges. It faces the Channel Islands and there any many cousins on both sides of the Alderney race. The dialect of the Norman language spoken by a minority in the region is called Haguais. The Norman poet Côtis-Capel was a native of the region and used the landscape as inspiration for his poetry.

Located at 49.6667, -1.83333 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Battle of Cherbourg (1864)

The Battle of Cherbourg, or sometimes the Battle off Cherbourg or the Sinking of CSS Alabama, was a single-ship action fought during the American Civil War between a United States Navy warship, the USS Kearsarge, and a Confederate States Navy warship, the CSS Alabama, on June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France.

Located at 49.7525, -1.695 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6 miles away.
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Naval battles of the American Civil War, Union victories of the American Civil War, Maritime incidents in 1864, War art, CSS Alabama, 1864 in France

COGEMA La Hague site

The AREVA NC (formerly Cogema - Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires) La Hague site is an AREVA nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in La Hague on the French Cotentin Peninsula that currently has nearly half of the world's light water reactor spent nuclear fuel reprocessing capacity. It has been in operation since 1976, and has a capacity of about 1700 tonnes per year. It extracts plutonium which is then recycled into MOX fuel at the Marcoule site.

Located at 49.6783, -1.87944 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6 miles away.
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Nuclear reprocessing sites, Radioactive waste, Buildings and structures in Manche, Nuclear technology in France, Nuclear energy in France

Cité de la Mer

The Cité de la Mer ("city of the sea") is a maritime museum in Cherbourg, France. The museum is in the cruise terminal of Cherbourg. This monument was built in 1933; it is one of the bigger art-deco monuments of today.

Located at 49.6468, -1.6174 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6 miles away.
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Maritime museums in France, Museums in Manche

Gare Maritime de Cherbourg

Cherbourg's Gare Maritime or Gare Maritime Transatlantique was a railway station at the end of the railway line from Paris' Gare Saint-Lazare and of the short branch from Cherbourg's main station.

Located at 49.6458, -1.6175 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6 miles away.
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Defunct railway stations in Lower Normandy, Région Ouest, Railway stations opened in 1933, 1933 establishments in France

SS Leopoldville (1929)

The Belgian transport ship SS Leopoldville, an 11,500-long-ton passenger liner converted for use as a troopship in the Second World War, was struck by a torpedo fired from U-486 in the English Channel approximately five miles from the coast of Cherbourg, France, on Christmas Eve, 24 December 1944, less than five months before the end of the war in Europe. As a result, approximately 763 soldiers died.

Located at 49.75, -1.56667 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9 miles away.
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Passenger ships of Belgium, Ships sunk by German submarines, World War II merchant ships of Belgium, World War II shipwrecks in the English Channel, Maritime incidents in 1944, Ministry of War Transport ships, Troop ships of the United Kingdom

Brécourt

Brécourt was a Nazi Germany bunker started inside an underground French Naval oil storage facility. On July 7, 1943, the site was ordered to be completed as a V-2 rocket launch facility. Early in 1944, the facility was converted to a V-1 flying bomb launch facility and subsequently completed.

Located at 49.6519, -1.67 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Buildings and structures in Manche, Ruins in Lower Normandy, Second World War in the Pas-de-Calais, V-weapon subterranea, History of Manche

Cherbourg School of Engineering

The Cherbourg Engineering School is a French engineering university funded in 1993. It is situated in Cherbourg-Octeville. The school is accredited by the "Commission des titres d'ingénieur" to deliver Engineering Degrees. This school is now part of the ESIX Normandie.

Located at 49.6339, -1.64444 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Grandes écoles, Educational institutions established in 1993

Jardin botanique du Château de Vauville

The Jardin botanique du Château de Vauville (4 hectares), also known as the Jardin botanique de Vauville, is a private botanical garden located on the grounds of the Château de Vauville near Beaumont-Hague in Vauville, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France. It is open afternoons in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The garden was begun by Eric Pellerin in 1948 on a windy site located within 300 meters of the Atlantic Ocean.

Located at 49.635, -1.84528 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6 miles away.
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Gardens in Manche, Botanical gardens in France

Jardin botanique de la Roche Fauconnière

The Jardin botanique de la Roche Fauconnière is a private botanical garden located in the Parc de la Fauconnière, Cherbourg-Octeville, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France. The garden was created in 1870 or 1873 by Alfred Favier and maintained by subsequent family members Léon Favier and Dr. Charles Favier. Today it contains 3,400 taxa, many from the Southern Hemisphere, with eucalyptus, magnolia, and unusual specimens including Ilex nothofagifolia and Pseudopanax laetevirens.

Located at 49.6331, -1.61667 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6 miles away.
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Gardens in Manche, Botanical gardens in France

HMS Capel (K470)

HMS Capel was a Captain-class frigate, built in the United States as a Evarts-class destroyer escort, and transferred to the Royal Navy under the terms of Lend-Lease, which served in World War II. The ship was laid down as USS Wintle (DE-266) on 11 March 1943 by the Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, and launched on 22 April 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Mary Clyde Wintle.

Located at 49.8333, -1.68333 (Lat. / Lng.), about 11 miles away.
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Captain-class frigates, Evarts-class destroyer escorts, World War II frigates of the United Kingdom, Ships built in Massachusetts, 1943 ships, Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the Royal Navy, Ships sunk by German submarines, World War II shipwrecks in the English Channel, Maritime incidents in 1944

Cherbourg Harbour

Cherbourg Harbour (French rade de Cherbourg; literally, the roadstead of Cherbourg), a harbour in France, is the largest artificial harbour in the world, with a surface area of around 1,500 hectares. Historically it has been used for mercantile shipping as well as a naval base. It was begun in 1783, with its central harbour wall was completed in 1853 - this was 3.64 km long, an average of 100m wide at its base and an average of 12 m wide at its top, and sited 4 km from the coast.

Located at 49.6591, -1.61173 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6 miles away.
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Ports and harbours of the English Channel

Musée Thomas-Henry

The Musée des beaux-arts Thomas Henry is a museum at Cherbourg-Octeville (Manche) with around 300 artworks, mainly paintings from the 15th to 19th centuries. It has been rated as the third most important collection in Normandy.

Located at 49.6372, -1.62306 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6 miles away.
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Art museums and galleries in France, Museums in Manche, Art museums established in 1836, 1836 establishments in France

1993 Cherbourg incident

The 1993 Cherbourg incident were a series of maritime incidents which took place from 26 March to 2 April 1993 between the Royal Navy and French fishermen as a result of a fishing rights dispute in and around the Channel Islands waters.

Located at 49.6652, -1.67262 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Maritime incidents in 1993, 1993 in France, 1993 in the United Kingdom, Conflicts in 1993, France–United Kingdom relations, International maritime incidents, Maritime incidents in France, Law of the sea, Royal Navy, 20th-century military history of the United Kingdom, History of fishing, Fishing in the United Kingdom, Fishing in France, Fishing conflicts, History of the Channel Islands, Battles and conflicts without fatalities

Querqueville Airfield

Querqueville Airfield is a former airfield .4 km north-northwest of Querqueville in the Normandy region of France.

Located at 49.6686, -1.69667 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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World War II airfields in France, Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in France