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St. George's Channel

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noun

  1. a channel between Wales and Ireland, connecting the Irish Sea and the Atlantic. 100 miles (160 km) long; 50–90 miles (81–145 km) wide.


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Two days after this scene Premier Ramsay MacDonald boarded a seaplane at Lossiemouth and flew St. George's Channel to the Marquess of Londonderry's house at Mount Stewart.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a County Wexford farmer's son, he used to lie on a cliff top in the long grass and gaze south across St. George's Channel to the tiny, haze-blue Saltee Islands.

From Time Magazine Archive

At 3:20 a.m., into the little Welsh port of Fishguard, the motor vessel Innisfallen slipped last week on its regular ferry run across St. George's Channel from Cork.

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Boatloads of seasick reporters tossed on the grey waters of St. George's Channel waiting for news.

From Time Magazine Archive

American citizen, Leon Chester Thrasher, an engineer, was among the victims of the German submarine that sank the British steamer Falaba in St. George's Channel last Sunday with a loss of 111 lives.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various