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Stephens Bros. boat owners meet every year at the Stephens Rendezvous, organized by the Northern California Fleet of the Classic Yacht Association, to show off these beautiful vessels. A collection of Stephens Bros. documents, photographs and original drawings are available to the public in the archives of The Haggin Museum in the brothers ...
Ore Carriers: The many ore boats of the American and Canadian fleets is filled with many different old and new ore carriers. Historical ore carriers include Herbert C Jackson (1959), Wilfred Sykes (1949), Lee A. Tregurtha (1942), Saginaw (1953), Cuyahoga (1943), SS Edward L. Ryerson (1960), MV Kaye E. Barker (1952), and the John G Munson (1952)
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
During World War I, the NRS (Neil Robertson stretcher) gained widespread use as the Royal Navy employed it for evacuating casualties from navy vessels that presented significant challenges due to narrow passages and confined spaces, making conventional stretchers impractical for such scenarios.
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The Cangarda was named as a combination of the last names of the original owners, Michigan lumber mogul Charles Canfield and his wife, Belle Gardner. In 1904, George Taylor Fulford, a wealthy businessman and member of the Senate of Canada, bought the boat and renamed her Magedoma, which was a combination of syllables from the names of his wife and children (MAry, GEorge, DOrothy, MArtha).
They produced up to 400 sailing yachts per year, 27 to 64 ft in length. [1] Bill Dixon and Angus Primrose were responsible for the design of all models. Due to falling sales in the sailing yacht business, the companies disbanded the connection in 2003. During their 30-year cooperation, they had developed 39 models and sold 4,233 boats. [1]
While C&C Yachts was known for its high-performance yachts, primarily building straight racers or racer-cruisers, Robert Ball's C&C Landfall series was conceived and marketed as performance cruisers. Launched in the late 1970s they were ahead of their time and so were not as commercially successful as they should have been, as many cruising ...