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Class 1 Streetcar #125 at 5th and Broadway in San Diego, CA (1915) One of Spreckels' major contributions to the city of San Diego was his commitment to the construction of Balboa Park in preparation of the Panama–California Exposition. As the owner of the San Diego Electric Railway Company, he also developed a unique fleet of special ...
The STS Kaisei (海星), meaning “Sea Star” in the Japanese language, is a steel-hulled brigantine designed by Polish naval architect Ryszard Langer. It was built as Schooner in Elbląg, Poland in 1987. After re-rigging it is now a two-masted vessel, square rigged on the foremast, with fore-and-aft sails on the mainmast.
Upon completion it was hauled to The Knight & Carver Boatyard on San Diego's Mission Bay and launched on October 25, 1989. The nine spars were shaped from old growth Douglas fir shipped from a mill in Washington State. The ship was originally rigged as a brigantine carrying three yards on the foremast.
The brigantine was the second-most popular rig for ships built in the British colonies in North America before 1775, after the sloop. [6] The brigantine was swifter and more easily maneuvered than a sloop or schooner, hence was employed for piracy, espionage, and reconnoitering, and as an outlying attendant upon large ships for protecting a ...
Hippolyte or Hipólito Bouchard (15 January 1780 [1] [A] – 4 January 1837), known in California as Pirata Buchar, was a French-born Argentine [2] [3] sailor and corsair (pirate) who fought for Argentina, Chile, and Peru.
At the U.S. Naval Medical Center in San Diego, close by the sprawling Marine base at Camp Pendleton, staff psychologist Amy Amidon sees a stream of Marines like Nick Rudolph struggling with their combat experiences. “They have seen the darkness within them and within the world, and it weighs heavily upon them,” she said.
The twin brigantines Irving Johnson and Exy Johnson are the flagships of the Los Angeles Maritime Institute's (LAMI) TopSail Youth Program, [1] a non-profit organization that helps at-risk youth learn discipline and teamwork through sailing.
He is currently an emeritus professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and director of its Center for Criminality & Addiction Research, Training & Application. By the early ’70s, variations of the Game used on addicts and other crude behavior-modification techniques caught the attention of Congress.