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Fighting tops of the Kalmar Nyckel. A fighting top was an enlarged top with swivel guns, designed to fire down at the deck of enemy ships.They could also hold sailors or marines armed with muskets or rifles; Horatio Nelson was mortally wounded at the Battle of Trafalgar by a sniper firing from a fighting top of the Redoutable.
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.
Charlotte Amalie is built on three low volcanic spurs called Frenchman Hill (Foretop Hill), Berg Hill (Maintop), and Government Hill (Mizzentop). [11] Charlotte Amalie is located at coordinates 18°21' north and 64°57' west.
The Akin Free Library was a gift from the Quaker Albert J. Akin (1803–1903), founder of the Bank of Pawling and the Mizzentop Hotel on Quaker Hill. [2] The building was designed by the architect John A. Wood and constructed between 1898 and 1908.
New York State Route 341 (NY 341) was an east–west state highway located in Dutchess County, New York, in the United States.It extended for 4.71 miles (7.58 km) from an intersection with NY 22 and NY 55 in the village of Pawling to the Connecticut state line in the town of Pawling.
These included Blair Eyrie, Mizzentop, Stanwood and The Turrets. [ 1 ] How lived in Boston, at the Brunswick Hotel, during the winter months, and moved north to Bar Harbor for the rest of the year, arriving in early spring to prepare for that year's influx of visitors.
During the Napoleonic Wars, the British frigate HMS Surprise is ambushed by the French privateer Acheron off the Brazilian coast, suffering heavy damage. After escaping into a fog bank, Captain Jack Aubrey, the commander of Surprise, is informed that Acheron is too powerful and he must return to port.
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.