More than 100 vessels have passed through the Suez Canal since the navigation in the ... displacement of 220,000 tonnes and a length of 400 meters. It took six days to refloat the vessel with ...

but it was not until the late 1890s that it was finally completed - the Suez Canal, meanwhile, was completed in 1869. At around four miles long but only 24.6 metres wide at sea level, it is now ...

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