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Within Mount Pearl and St. John's, Topsail Road is a major arterial road and commercial area. Two shopping malls, Mount Pearl Square and the Village Shopping Centre, are located on the road, as well as a number of strip malls, fast-food restaurants, other businesses, and residential properties.
A yard topsail is similar, but set on a yard. Early 19th-century topsail yards were set almost horizontally, but gradually increased in angle until they became almost vertical extension of the topmast. [7] A jack-yard topsail (or club topsail) instead has its lower edge (or foot) extended out beyond the end of the gaff with a short yard, called ...
Route 2 (Pitts Memorial Drive/Peacekeepers Way) – Conception Bay South, Mount Pearl, Downtown: Outer Ring Road: Mount Pearl: 17: 11: 42 A/B: Kenmount Road - Mount Pearl: Outer Ring Road, Access To McNamara And Donovans Industrial Parks: Paradise: 16: 9.9: 43: Route 60 (Topsail Road) – Paradise, Mount Pearl: Outer Ring Road: St. John's: 11: ...
Topsail was created in a 1995 redistribution, incorporating much of Conception Bay South and a small part of Mount Scio-Bell Island. The 2007 redistribution changed the district significantly. Fifty-four per cent of it was retained, 32 per cent moved to Conception Bay South, 10 per cent moved to Mount Pearl North and four per cent shifted to ...
The highway now passes through mainly rural areas before following the Mount Pearl-St. John's city at a large interchange with Route 1 (Trans-Canada Highway). Route 2 now becomes Pitts Memorial Drive and passes through Mount Pearl's southernmost neighbourhoods, where it has an interchange with Route 3 (Robert E Howlett Memorial Drive/Goulds ...
Topsail Island will welcome 43 homes in the coming year as a new waterfront development's lots go on sale for the public this spring. ACCOLADE coastal development is located between Surf City and ...
The key distinction between a ship and a barque (in modern usage) is that a ship carries a square-rigged mizzen topsail (and therefore that its mizzen mast has a topsail yard and a cross-jack yard) whereas the mizzen mast of a barque has only fore-and-aft rigged sails. The cross-jack yard was the lowest yard on a ship's mizzen mast.
The fore royal yard on the Prince William. Prince William's royal yards are the highest and smallest yards on the ship, are made of wood, and are "lifting yards" that can be raised along a section of the mast. Here it is in the lowered position. A yard is a spar on a mast from which sails are set.