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The brigantine was the second-most popular rig for ships built in the British colonies in North America before 1775, after the sloop. [6] The brigantine was swifter and more easily maneuvered than a sloop or schooner, hence was employed for piracy, espionage, and reconnoitering, and as an outlying attendant upon large ships for protecting a ...
The Poway Group is a geologic group in San Diego County, Southern California. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period. [1] Poway clasts.
Poway (/ ˈ p aʊ. eɪ /) is a city in San Diego County, California, United States. Poway's rural roots influenced its motto "The City in the Country". The city had a population of 48,841 as of the 2020 United States census. [7] Poway is part of San Diego's East County. [8]
Nancy was an American sailing vessel, noted in sources as either a brig or a brigantine, that was chartered to transport war supplies during the American Revolutionary War. After learning that independence had been declared, her captain, according to his daughter, raised the first American flag in a foreign port.
Brigantine (or simply The Island) is a city in Atlantic County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census , the city's population was 7,716, [ 12 ] a decrease of 1,734 (−18.3%) from the 2010 census count of 9,450, [ 22 ] [ 23 ] which in turn reflected a decline of 3,144 (−25.0%) from the 12,594 counted in the 2000 ...
With the arrival of a truckload of South American Purpleheart hardwood for the keel in 2000, the Twin Brigantine project began in the parking lot adjacent to LAMI. The hulls were built in public, and framed out with American White oak and fastened with bronze .
Tyrannicide was re-rigged from schooner to brigantine prior to embarking on a cruise to the West Indies on 29 October 1776. [1] Tyrannicide captured the snow Ann , the brig Henry and Ann , the 140-ton snow John , and the 100-ton brig Three Friends , before returning to Massachusetts on 14 February 1777.
Brigantine Yankee; STS Young Endeavour (1987) This page was last edited on 24 September 2023, at 15:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...