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2. Tigris (ship) - Wikipedia

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   Tigris (1802 ship) was launched at Newcastle-on-Tyne as an East Indiaman. She made six voyages for the British East India Company before she was sold in 1815. She then sailed as a West Indiaman until she was wrecked on 4 December 1823. HCS Tigris (1829), a brig of 258 tons and 10 guns, was built at the Bombay Dockyard for the EIC's naval arm. [1]

3. Kuphar - Wikipedia

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   A kuphar (also transliterated kufa, kuffah, quffa, quffah, etc. [1]) is a type of coracle or round boat traditionally used on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in ancient and modern Mesopotamia. Its circular shape means that it does not sail well against the current, as it tends to spin, but makes it safe, sturdy and easy to construct.

4. Thor Heyerdahl (ship) - Wikipedia

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   One of the two original owners was Detlef Soitzek, who had sailed with the Norwegian anthropologist, zoologist, ethnologist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl on his Tigris expedition in 1977/1978, and suggested naming the ship after the famous researcher and adventurer. The ownership of the ship was subsequently turned over to an association.

5. craigslist - Wikipedia

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   Craigslist headquarters in the Inner Sunset District of San Francisco prior to 2010. The site serves more than 20 billion [17] page views per month, putting it in 72nd place overall among websites worldwide and 11th place overall among websites in the United States (per Alexa.com on June 28, 2016), with more than 49.4 million unique monthly visitors in the United States alone (per Compete.com ...

6. Fly-class gunboat - Wikipedia

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   The Fly-class river gunboats (or small China gunboats), collectively often referred to as the "Tigris gunboat flotilla", were a class of small well-armed Royal Navy vessels designed to patrol the Tigris river during the Mesopotamian Campaign during the First World War (the China name was to disguise their function).

7. Reed boat - Wikipedia

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   The Uros still build totora reed boats, which they use for fishing and hunting seabirds. [11] Reed boat craftsmen from Suriqui, a town on the Bolivian side of lake Titicaca, helped Thor Heyerdahl construct Ra II and Tigris. [12] Thor Heyerdahl attempted to prove that the reed boats of Lake Titicaca derived from the papyrus boats of Egypt.