The Tay Road Bridge was built to replace the former Tay ferry service, popularly known in Dundee as " the Fifie ".

* Fifie: A sailing boat with two masts with a standard rig consisting of a main dipping lugsail and a mizzen standing lug sail developed in Scotland ; used for commercial fishing from the 1850s until the 20th century.

* Reaper ( sailing vessel ), a restored Fifie fishing boat

The accompanying picture of Fifies on the left, a fairly late design in the evolution of the rig, shows one extreme, where the white-sailed boat looks at first glance almost to have a Bermudian rig ( although on closer examination, it is clearly a Fifie on the opposite tack ).

The fore lug ( main sail ) on a Fifie is a dipping lugsail.

* Fifie, a herring drifter of the Scottish east coast

A Sailing Fifie, showing the main dipping lug and the mizzen standing lug.

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Haplogroups D1a, M7a, and N9b were observed in these individuals, and N9b was by far the most predominant.

Between 1914 and 1915 talks were held for a proposed amalgamation with rugby league, the predominant code of football in New South Wales and Queensland was considered and trialled.

Rav's activity made Babylonia independent of Palestine, and gave it that predominant position which it was destined to occupy for several centuries.

Until the Age of Enlightenment, Christian culture was the predominant force in western civilization, guiding the course of philosophy, art, and science.

The Song Dynasty was the first to issue generally circulating paper currency, while the Yuan Dynasty was the first to use notes as the predominant circulating medium.

It was the predominant teaching of the church until the rise of dispensationalism in the 19th century.

The Yihewani ( Ikhwan al Muslimun a. k. a. Muslim brotherhood ) was the predominant Muslim sect backed by the Chiang government during Chiang's regime.

Mignet argued that the " constitution of 1791 ... was the work of the middle class, then the strongest ; for, as is well known, the predominant force ever takes possession of institutions ...

The word Gulag was not often used in Russian — either officially or colloquially ; the predominant terms were the camps () and the zone (), usually singular — for the labor camp system and for the individual camps.

Perhaps his most significant achievement, other than his predominant influence in the early movement, was his leadership in overcoming the twin challenges of government prosecution after the Restoration and internal disputes that threatened its stability during the same period.

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The predominant religion was Christianity, but there was even a huge Jewish community ( mainly in Cyrenaica ).

The harp also was predominant with medieval bards, troubadors and minnesingers throughout the Spanish Empire.

) This was one of the investigations which led to the victory of the wave theory of light over the then predominant corpuscular theory.

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One medical expert told Summers that Hoover was of " strongly predominant homosexual orientation ", while another medical expert categorized him as a " bisexual with failed heterosexuality ”.

The Yihewani ( Ikhwan al Muslimun a. k. a. Muslim brotherhood ) was the predominant Muslim sect backed by the Kuomintang.

For three centuries Mexico was just another kingdom ( the New Spain ) of the Spanish Empire, during which time its indigenous population fell by more than half and was partially replaced by Spaniards and the now predominant Mestizos or mixture of Indigenous and Spanish populations.

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Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast, in Chiba, and divided his life between the land and the sea, supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat.

Out of this background of hunting and fishing, it was only natural that Roy first painted subjects he knew best: hunters in the field, fishermen in the stream, ducks and geese on the wing -- almost always against a vast backdrop of weather landscape.

The issue was settled on shore, Greene winning and Wilson remaining ashore, determined to catch the next fishing boat back to England.

I asked an old guy running a fishing station if the boat was Moore's.

It was invented by Robert Stevenson, for use by an 82-ton converted fishing boat, Pharos, which was used as a lightvessel between 1807 and 1810 near to Bell Rock whilst the lighthouse was being constructed.

It was founded between 650 and 625 BC by Gorgus, son of the Corinthian tyrant Cypselus, at which time its economy was based on farmlands, fishing, timber for shipbuilding, and the exportation of the produce of Epirus.

Their economy was based on farming, as well as hunting, fishing and gathering.

For example, on Saint Lucia, harvesting mangrove for timber and clearing for fishing reduced the mangrove forests, resulting in a loss of habitat and spawning grounds for marine life that was unique to the area.

In the winter of 1994, the return of coho salmon far exceeded expectations, which was attributed in part to the fishing ban.

A fishing colony was established on the island about 1521 – 22 by the Portuguese under João Álvares Fagundes.

Anne experienced icing problems, it was decided to construct a much larger fortification at Louisbourg to improve defences at the entrance to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and defend France's fishing fleet on the Grand Banks.

The Halifax metropolitan area has come to dominate peninsular Nova Scotia as a retail and service centre, but that province's industries were spread out from the coal and steel industries of industrial Cape Breton and Pictou counties, the mixed farming of the North Shore and Annapolis Valley, and the fishing industry was primarily focused on the South Shore and Eastern Shore.

The traditional staples thesis, advocated by scholars such as S. A. Saunders, looks at the resource endowments of the Maritimes and argues that it was the decline of the traditional industries of shipbuilding and fishing that led to Maritime poverty, since these processes were rooted in geography, and thus all but inevitable.

Apart from fishing and agriculture, the main economic resource of the Dumnonii was tin mining.

This trait is common in the northernmost part of Norway, where life and culture was based on fishing more than anywhere else.

In the 19th century Mzizima ( Swahili for " healthy town ") was a coastal fishing village on the periphery of Indian Ocean trade routes.

Thus, Elizabeth was as at ease among the upper classes as she was among the fishing folk of the area also enjoyed good health, which she maintained throughout her life.

In 1954, the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon was exposed to radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, in 1969, an ecologically catastrophic oil spill from an offshore well in California's Santa Barbara Channel, Barry Commoner's protest against nuclear testing, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, Paul R. Ehrlich's The Population Bomb all added anxiety about the environment.

In the 19th century Emsworth had as many as 30 pubs and beer houses, probably to do with the fact that Emsworth was a fishing village.

In the 19th century Emsworth had as many as 30 pubs and beer houses, probably to do with the fact that Emsworth was a fishing village.