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Jimmy Mizen (9 May 1992 – 10 May 2008) was a 16-year-old schoolboy who was murdered in Lee, London.A 19-year-old man, Jake Fahri, was convicted in March 2009 of his murder and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of fourteen years.
Albert Weisbogel (c. 1844 – May 27, 1919) was a 19th-century United States Navy sailor. He was twice awarded America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for peacetime actions (for which he would now be awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal).
A foremast might be stepped into a similar fore-top platform on the foremast. A mizzen-top would be a platform on the mizzenmast. [3] Similar main-top and fore-top platforms have been retained on steam ships and motor vessels as preferred locations for installing rotating radar antennae.
USS Constitution sailing under (bow to stern) jibs, topsails, and spanker.. On a square rigged vessel, a topsail is a typically trapezoidal shaped sail rigged above the course sail and below the topgallant sail where carried, on any mast (i.e., a fully rigged ship would have a foremast topsail, a mainmast topsail, and a mizzen topsail).
A traditional ship's mast, consisting of "lower" (i.e. Main-, Fore- or Mizzen-) mast, topmast and topgallant/royal mast. The topmast is highlighted in red.
A petty officer (PO) is a non-commissioned officer in many navies.Often they may be superior to a seaman, and subordinate to more senior non-commissioned officers, such as chief petty officers.
Three-masted training ship Mersey Main topgallant mast. The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat.
Harrisville Historic District is a well-preserved historic New England mill village located in the southwest part of New Hampshire.It consists of about 200 acres (0.81 km 2) and about 135 structures.