Lune Millennium Bridge Network, route 6. The design received the Sustrans National Cycle Network Award for Excellence in 2005, and was commended in the Civic Trust Awards in 2003. The bridge is referred to by many Lancastrians as the 'swearing bridge' due to its two masts resembling a 'V sign'. Its location is culturally significant as the near-approximate site of the historic Old Loyne Bridge. Lune Millennium Bridge The Lune Millennium Bridge is a cable-stayed footbridge which spans the River Lune in Lancaster, England. It was designed by Whitby Bird and Partners, and built at a cost of £1.8m to commemorate the millennium
French ship Lune (1641) French ship Lune (1641) The Lune was a 38-gun ship of the line of the French Royal Navy, the first ship of the line to be built at the new state dockyard at Île d'Indret near Nantes, designed by Deviot and constructed by the Dutch shipwright Jan Gron (usually called Jean de Werth in French). She and her sister "Soleil" were two-deckers, with a mixture of bronze guns on both gun decks. The "Lune" took part in the Battle of Orbitello on 14 June 1646, as the flagship of "Vice-amiral" Louis Foucault de Saint-Germain-Beaupré,Comte de Daugnon, in the Battle of