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A two or three masted schooner is quite maneuverable and can be sailed by a smaller crew than some other sailing vessels.
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And they had almost everything they needed: land, a house, two whiteface bulls, three horses.
The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.
Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.
A call to the police had been placed from here a couple of minutes after nine P.M., and the first police car had arrived two or three minutes after that -- 10 minutes ago now.
At her door, two or three hours later, Mary Jane whispered, `` Everyone is asleep ''.
The body may have been two or three weeks' dead.
The first two or three days they went home early.
When she appeared, two or three of the little girls jumped up and down, yelling, `` Goody, goody ''.
The crowd consequently breaks up into temporary groups ranging in size from two to six, with a half-life for the cluster ranging from three to twenty minutes.
If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.
Gaunt scaffoldings adjoined the ruins, and on the ground segments of columns two and a half to three feet in thickness were being fitted with sections cunningly chiseled to match exactly the fluting and proportion of the original.
Catherwood, an architect in New York, had been forgotten, like Stephens, and Victor reconstructed their lives as one reconstructs, for a museum, a dinosaur from two or three petrified bones.
Charles Breasted remembers that, before unpacking his bag, he telephoned his bootlegger with a generous order, and almost at once `` the familiar procession of people began milling through our living room at any hour between two P.M. and three A.M. ''.
Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.
There were four from St. John's and four from Christ's, three from Pembroke, and two from each of the colleges, Jesus, Peterhouse, Queens', and Trinity, with Caius, Clare, King's, Magdalene, and Sidney supplying one each in the ordo senioritatis.
there were two or three colored maids employed there.
While this was being discussed, we saw the militia to the west of us fanning out and breaking into little clusters of two and three men as they approached the road.
If we cluster together, the redcoats can make an advantage out of it, but there's not a blessed thing they can do with two or three of us except chase us, and we can outrun them ''.
That settled it, and we broke into parties of two and three.
`` When Konishi gets back with the jeep, I want you to round up two or three Japanese boys.
Every few minutes she would awaken for a moment to review things: Stowey, yes, was on his way south, and the two boys were away in school, and nothing was burning on the stove, and Lucretia was coming for dinner and bringing three guests of hers.
Bobby Joe and two or three of the other boys declared they had never been possum-hunting, and Uncle Bill Farnworth ( from Mama Albright's side of the family ) said he would just get up from there and take them, right then.
The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.
At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.
The president has little influence in day-by-day curricular changes, but if he looks ahead two, three, or five years to anticipate issues and throw out challenging ideas, he can open the way for innovation, and he can also have a great deal to say as to what path it will take.
two and masted
In early May 1717, several pirates from their snow ( a type of two masted vessel ), the Anne, raided several vessels that were off the shore of Matinicus at the time.
Chronologically, these were the two masted luggers, the Skaffies, Fifies and Zulus ; then the powered Steam Drifters and Seine Netters.
Given the conditions of the Mediterrenean, but not exclusively restricted to it, galley type vessels were extensively used there, as were various two masted vessels, including the caravels with their lateen sails.
The Stavros is a brig, that is a two masted vessel with square sails on both masts.
“ upon waves of the sea a two-masted ship in full sail proper flagged Gules ” means that a two masted ship is depicted on the sea.
Shipbuilding culminated in the 1885s with the construction of the four masted barque John M. Blaikie, which along with the barque Kings County built across the Minas Basin, was one of only two four masted barques ever built in Canada and among the largest wooden sailing vessels built in Canada.
During battle commissioned ships of the RAN will fly a large Australian White Ensign at the foremast of single masted ships, and at the mainmast of two masted ships.
* SS Orizaba ( 1860 – 1865, 1872 – 1875 ): a 1450 ton, wooden hull, side paddle wheel, two masted steamship with accommodation for 1, 028 passengers.
two and schooner
He survived two shipwrecks and floated through the Golden Gate on the overturned hull of a foundering lumber schooner.
In 1805, two captured crewmembers of the shipwrecked schooner Betsey were kept alive until their escape from an undetermined island on a diet of sago.
A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts.
The schooner sail plan has two or more masts with the forward mast being shorter or the same height as the rear masts.
The dominant issue with a schooner is how to most effectively fill the space between the the two masts.
More commonly, a schooner with a Bemuda mainsail will have a mainstaysail between the masts, and on the foredeck, one or two foresails, namely the forestaysail ( aka jib, or genoa ) and inner forestaysail.
A small schooner has two or three masts, but they were built with as many as six ( e. g. the wooden six-masted Wyoming ) or seven masts to carry a larger volume of cargo.
* schooner: fore-and-aft rigged sails, with two or more masts, the aftermost mast taller or equal to the height of the forward mast ( s )
A schooner can have two or more masts, the aftermost mast taller or equal to the height of the forward mast ( s ), distinguishing this design from a ketch or a yawl.
* 1819, John Palmer, schooner, 37 tons, Captain Bastian, two lives lost ( one ex Daphne )
If a vessel has two masts of approximately the same height, the rig with the larger sail forward is called a ketch, while the rig with the larger sail aft is a schooner.
Cabin Fever consisted of a group of ten contestants chosen specially for the show, most of whom had no sailing experience ( though they had received a quick course in sailing technique prior to setting sail ), who were to be put on the 27. 4 metre ( 90 foot ), two-masted schooner with a professional crew of two.
See also the Thames sailing barge and the Norfolk wherry, two British equivalents to the scow schooner.
La Recouvrance ( schooner ) | La Recouvrance with both a yard topsail and two square topsails ; the partly obscured sail between the topmasts is a topmast staysail
They returned to the UK in 1931 where he built his own schooner, the Mary Fortune, which he and his mother spent the next two years sailing around the British coast.
In March 1758, forty Acadian and Mi ' kmaq attacked a schooner at Fort Cumberland and killed its master and two sailors.
The innermost such sail on a cutter, schooner and many other rigs having two or more foresails is referred to simply as the staysail, while the others are referred to as jibs, flying jibs etc.
Thus, on 7 September 1807 Peymann surrendered the fleet ( eighteen ships of the line, eleven frigates, two smaller ships, two ship-sloops, seven brig-sloops, two brigs, one schooner and twenty-six gunboats ).
* was a 5-gun schooner launched in 1826 and wrecked off Cuba two months later.
They consisted of a Spanish privateer schooner and her two British prizes, the ship Golden Grove and the brig Ceres, which the Spanish privateer had captured some two months earlier.
Soon after his promotion to Lieutenant in 1826, he was ordered aboard the 12-gun schooner, returned home for two years after his father's death in 1827, and then served aboard the 16-gun sloop in 1829.
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