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Sea-Doo is a Canadian brand of personal watercraft (PWC) and boats manufactured by Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP). [ 1][ 2] All Sea-Doo models are driven by an impeller-driven waterjet. [ 3][ 4] All Sea-Doo PWC models are produced at BRP's plants in Querétaro and Juárez, Mexico. Its Rotax engines are produced at BRP's plant in ...
The steamboat Ticonderoga is one of two remaining side-paddle-wheel passenger steamers with a vertical beam engine of the type that provided freight and passenger service on America's bays, lakes and rivers from the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries. Commissioned by the Champlain Transportation Company, Ticonderoga was built in 1906 at the ...
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The Great Seal, or the Great Seal of the State of California as it is officially called, is the impression made on "all commissions, pardons and other public instruments to which the signature of the Governor is required" with the attestation of the Secretary of State; the impression, with or without "wafer," is made by a master die and counter die of an officially adopted design fixed in a ...
Mendocino ( United States ), 2 December 1888. The two-masted steam schooner was wrecked on Humboldt Bar, abandoned 7 January 1889, the lumber cargo was saved, one child died. The ship lay where it was wrecked until she broke up. [3] 40°55′0″N 124°8′30″W. / 40.91667°N 124.14167°W / 40.91667; -124.14167.
Yosemite was built in 1862 at the yard of John Gunder North, in San Francisco.For a vessel built entirely of wood, Yosemite was enormous. She was 282' long after her rebuild following the 1865 boiler explosion, when 30' was added to her length., [1] 35' beam (80' over the paddle guards) and 13' depth of hold, and rated at 1525 tons.
"On the night of June 6, 1853, the clipper ship Carrier Pigeon ran aground 500 feet off shore of the central California coast. The area is now called Pigeon Point in her honor. The Carrier Pigeon was a state-of-the art, 19th Century clipper ship. She was 175 feet long with a narrow, 34 foot beam and rated at about 845 tons burden.
A paddle boarder paddles through water Thursday at Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, Calif. Kayakers and visitors have flocked to the park to take advantage of the ephemeral waters ...