quay

The main indicator of its deadly potential is a fire truck parked outside on the quay.

With two blasts of its horn, MV Hebridean Isles bade farewell as it left the quay at Stornoway for a final time on Sunday, bound for Glasgow before it goes to the breakers.

On the stone quays of the Seine, even the most passionate odes to the river’s charms tend to arrive at the same conclusion: Nope.

Currently the 26 July ceremony is supposed to take place on boats in the river Seine, with more than 300,000 people watching from the quays.

While attempting to leave the port of Antwerp, Belgium in 2016 the ship scraped its stern along the quay damaging the hull.