Port of Almeria area. The VTS is fitted with radar on top of the tower. Several shipping companies offer frequent connections with North Africa Port of Almeria The Port of Almeria is a busy ferry-port in Almeria, Spain. The port is located in the center of the city, and serves primarily as a ferry terminal. Crossings to destinations in North Africa take approximately 6 hours (normal ferry to Nador or Melilla). This is a much longer (and more expensive) crossing than the short crossings from Algeciras to Tangier, but it is more convenient for people traveling to the Rif area or Algeria. Almeria
Almeria Carpenter Almeria Carpenter Lady Almeria Carpenter (1752 – 1809) was a British courtier and mistress of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh. She was the daughter of the politician George Carpenter, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, and his wife, Frances Clifton, daughter of Sir Robert Clifton, 5th Baronet. She became the mistress of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, in the early 1780s. She was widely appreciated for her beauty and her disdain of convention, but it was also noted that she was not very clever. Despite this she lived with the Prince and his wife and it