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The association with lower-income elderly people has produced a stigma. This is sometimes avoided by re-branding the offering with names such as "twilight dinner", "sunset dinner" or "happy hour". [4] Another approach is to offer other kinds of discounts, such as coupons or a menu with smaller portions at a lower cost. [4]
USS General Gates was a brigantine of the Continental Navy active in 1778 and 1779.. Built as the merchant brigantine Industrious Bee in 1764 at Bristol, England, for operations by Clapman & Co., the British ship was captured on 29 August 1777 by Captain John Skimmer in the Continental schooner USS Lee, while bound from Gibraltar for Newfoundland.
Nancy was an American sailing vessel, noted in sources as either a brig or a brigantine, that was chartered to transport war supplies during the American Revolutionary War. After learning that independence had been declared, her captain, according to his daughter, raised the first American flag in a foreign port.
Defence was a new ship, laid down in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1779. She was owned by Andrew Cabot and Moses Brown, Beverly merchants who operated a number of privateers.. Massachusetts archives list her as a 170-ton brigantine with 16 six-pound cannon and a crew of
In June 2012, happy hour became legal in Kansas after a 26-year ban. [18] In July 2015, a 25-year happy hour ban was ended in Illinois. [19] As of July 2015, happy hour bans existed in Alaska, Hawaii, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Utah, and Vermont. A bill filed in 2023 in the North Carolina General ...
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 ...
The Ethel was used to resupply pearl luggers in Western Australia. The ship left Broome on 19 October 1899 under Captain John Redell. [3] The crew mutinied, killing the captain and several other crew members, including the captain's son. [4]
The Fuller family founded Bytown Brigantine Foundation in 1984 utilizing Fair Jeanne ' s sister ship, Black Jack, whose port is the Britannia Yacht Club. After 14 years of service to the family as a yacht, Fair Jeanne was brought into sail-training service as well, allowing Bytown Brigantine Inc. to expand its program and offer offshore sail ...