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Weeks 533 is a 500-short-ton (454 t) capacity Clyde Iron Works model 52 barge-mounted crane which is the largest revolving floating crane on the East Coast of the United States. [1] It was originally ordered for bridge construction and has since been used in several notable heavy lifts.
Modeled after schooner Wanderer (1858); privately owned; commercial charters; sail training vessel; 100 ton captain training. 2 masted gaff; topsail schooner [20] Black Douglas: 1930 Morocco: Privately owned; former school ship 3 masted Marconi/staysail schooner Bluenose II: 1963 Lunenburg, Nova Scotia: Replica of racing/fishing schooner Bluenose
Volo was a 500-ton barque stranded in the Bushman River in South Africa.. Volo had been built at Arendal, Norway in the 1880s and was homeported there. She undertook her final voyage under Captain Olsen, sailing from Goteburg, Sweden, carrying a cargo of Baltic pine timber to Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa.
A brig's square-rig also had the advantage over a fore-and-aft–rigged vessel when travelling offshore, in the trade winds, where vessels sailed down wind for extended distances and where "the danger of a sudden jibe was the large schooner-captain's nightmare". [13] This trait later led to the evolution of the barquentine. The need for large ...
The ship had been following weather routing advice by Ocean Routes, a commercial weather routing company. [6] The search for Derbyshire began on 15 September 1980 and was called off six days later. When no trace of the vessel was found, it was declared lost. Six weeks after Derbyshire sank, one of the vessel's lifeboats was sighted by a ...
SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there.
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The Pélican was a French warship from the late 17th century. Built in Bayonne, France, the original Pélican was launched in January 1693. [1] A 500-ton ship fitted with 50 guns and commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, she ran aground on the shores of Hudson Bay a few days after a heroic battle in 1697, badly damaged by the encounter and by a fierce storm.