Initially, four passengers and 10 of the crew were winched ashore, while the remaining nine crew tried to refloat the roll-on roll-off ferry.

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And the modernisation plans comes as the UK is increasing its ability to deploy forces abroad, with six new roll-on, roll-off ferries, and the leasing of four giant C-17 cargo planes, leased from the Americans, which can carry Apache attack helicopters or Chinooks around the world.

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Offer a roll-on, roll-off Merchant Navy ferry to help transport equipment to the French force in Mali.

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It uses a roll-on, roll-off system to transfer containers between trains and ships.

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But Yahoo said the system was not yet paying off and that a further roll-out was on hold while changes were made.

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New plug-in hybrids roll off our assembly lines, but they will run on batteries made in Korea.

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