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The Mariners were created as a result of a lawsuit. In 1970, in the aftermath of the Seattle Pilots' purchase and relocation to Milwaukee as the Milwaukee Brewers by Bud Selig, the city of Seattle, King County, and the state of Washington (represented by then-state Attorney General and future U.S. Senator Slade Gorton) sued the American League for breach of contract. [9]
The Mariners were created as a result of a lawsuit. In 1970, in the aftermath of the Pilots' purchase and relocation to Milwaukee by future Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig, the City of Seattle, King County, and the state of Washington (represented by then-State Attorney General and future U.S. Senator Slade Gorton) sued the American League for breach of contract. [2]
The Sailors' Union of the Pacific (SUP) founded on March 6, 1885 in San Francisco, California [1] is an American labor union of mariners, fishermen and boatmen working aboard U.S. flag vessels. At its fourth meeting in 1885, the fledgling organization adopted the name Coast Sailor's Union and elected George Thompson its first president.
The Seattle Mariners have played their home games at T-Mobile Park since it opened in 1999. The Seattle Mariners are a Major League Baseball (MLB) team based in Seattle, Washington, United States. The team has been a member of the American League's West division since they entered as an expansion franchise in 1977. Their name was chosen in a public contest and reflects the city's nautical ...
The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD.. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.
After the start of the war other training stations were added in Boston, Port Hueneme, California, and St. Petersburg, Florida. [38] Training ships crewed by the Coast Guard included the Maritime Commission steamships American Seaman, American Mariner, and American Sailor. [38]
It became the first long-term English settlement in North America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The trips aboard the ships Susan Constant , Discovery , and the Godspeed , and the settlement itself, were sponsored by the London Company, whose "adventurers" (investors) hoped to make a profit from the resources of the New World .
The true mariner's compass using a pivoting needle in a dry box was invented in Europe no later than 1300. [19] [35] Nautical charts called portolan charts began to appear in Italy at the end of the 13th century. [36] However, their use did not seem to spread quickly: there are no reports of the use of a nautical chart on an English vessel ...