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Asked by: 41.114.138.136 18:56, 7 December 2024 (UTC) Bromley Qungathi[reply]

• Canada has between 1.4 and 2 million lakes, many of them in remote areas, and many of them have islands, so it seems likely. There is no way of knowing, though, as the Indigenous peoples didn't keep records of all their travels before contact with Europeans. Ground Zero (talk) 21:04, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How many hours do you travel when you are going to London by a boat

Asked by: Emza 41.114.190.41 19:56, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You need to be more specific. Where will you be coming from?

I crossed the Channel a few times by hovercraft, decades ago, don't recall exactly. A few hours on the boat & an hour or two by train between the port & London. Other ferries were slower.

I'm not sure if there are still liners running NY-London, Halifax-Liverpool or whatever. When there were I think they took about a week.

Pashley 20:48, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, please tell us where you will start your journey, otherwise it's impossible to tell how long it takes. Also I don't think there are any passenger boats going to London other than tour boats on the Thames. Tilbury, which is halfway downstream to the North Sea does have a freight port and freight ships occasionally take passengers too. --Ypsilon (talk) 21:49, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Thames has commuter ferries too, but only to other parts of London. There are no large passenger ships that routinely dock in London. Ferries run to Harwich, Dover, Newhaven and Portsmouth; cruise ships and liners run to Dover and Southampton.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 02:48, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The asker's IP address geolocates to South Africa. Here is a 33-day cruise from Cape Town to London. A private vessel might be faster. —Granger (talk · contribs) 15:18, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If it's about 6,000 M and you sail 120 M/day, then it takes some 50 days, so not necessarily quicker, depending on route, speed etc. You hardly get the speed of big passenger ships, even with a racer that at times goes 20+ knots, and you'll have days when you don't gain much distance. –LPfi (talk) 08:58, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A container ship normally does Cape Town – Southampton (or any other port in Western Europe) in about 13 days. PiusImpavidus (talk) 09:43, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's an average speed of about 17 knots, which I think is much for a long-distance freighter – seems cost of capital dominates over fuel economy. –LPfi (talk) 10:18, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For a bulk carrier that would be very fast; that's why I wrote container ship. I just checked a few currently near Dakar: Marseille Maersk southbound 18.7kn; Ever Golden southbound 20kn; Maersk Charleston northbound 17.3kn; MSC Ravenna southbound 19.8kn; Maersk Utah northbound 19.2kn. With a cargo value running into the hundreds of millions, if not billions of euros (assuming a few euros per kilogramme), capital costs are indeed substantial. And that also tells us why insurance companies don't want them to use the Red Sea now. PiusImpavidus (talk) 16:45, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]