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In those cases, the aircraft may not be operated closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel, vehicle, or structure.
There is little justification for the cost and complexity of a second mast unless the vessel is reasonably large, ( say ) above 50 feet LOA.
The Burghley Nef, a salt-cellar, French, dated 1527-28, uses a nautilus shell to form the hull of a vessel, which rests on the tail of a parcelgilt mermaid, who rests on a hexagonal gilt plinth on six claw-and-ball feet.
The M. W. Wright was constructed in 1968, a steam powered vessel seventy feet from bow to stern and a width of 14ft, weighing in at nearly 43 tons.
Under the Canadian span, a vessel just less than 25 feet ( 7. 6 m ) offshore can find itself in over 200 feet ( 61 m ) of water.
The fish swim indifferently in all directions ; the drops fall into the vessel beneath ; and, in throwing something to your friend, you need throw it no more strongly in one direction than another, the distances being equal ; jumping with your feet together, you pass equal spaces in every direction.
Since a slung hammock moves in concert with the motion of the vessel, the occupant is not at a risk of being thrown onto the deck ( which may be 5 or 6 feet below ) during swells or rough seas.
Gross register tonnage ( GRT ) represents the total internal volume of a vessel, where a register ton is equal to a volume of 100 cubic feet ( 2. 83168 m < sup > 3 </ sup >), which volume, if filled with fresh water, would weigh around 2, 800 kg or 2. 8 tonnes.
The blood is being collected in the vessel near Bird Jaguar's feet.
It is lighted by a row of lights as far as you can see, which shed a veiled light, like sepulchral lamps ; the atmosphere is foggy ; you go along considerable stretches without meeting a soul ; the walls sweat like those of an aqueduct ; the floor moves under your feet like the deck of a vessel ; the steps and voices of the people coming the other way give forth a cavernous sound, and are heard before you see the people, and they at a distance seem like great shadows ; there is, in short, a sort of something mysterious, which without alarming causes in your heart a vague sense of disquiet.
Over a period of 150 years after the vessel had been beached, approximately 11 feet of silt accumulated and, in 1763, a waterfront fill-in project added another 8 to 9 feet.
: fter giving Ghusl, Hunut, Kafan and Namaz-e-Mayyit it should be lowered into the sea in a vessel of clay or with a weight tied to its feet.
Both the Boussole and her companion vessel, the frigate Astrolabe, were immediately brought about, passing within a few hundred feet of the breakers.
He estimated a diameter of 25 feet and said the vessel was around 150 feet in total length.
The vessel is some twenty feet long: it possesses a keel and a rudder ( adapted from the Irish plank-built boat ), with a wickerwork hull stiffened by ribs, and with a mast amidship.
Gross register tonnage, the total internal volume of a vessel, with one gross register ton equal to 100 cubic feet ( 2. 8316846592 cubic meters )
Encouraged on by his wife and the gathered crowd, he dived into the troubled waters and swam the 50 or more feet to the vessel.
Perhaps the most famous movie stunt featuring Jayan came in Chandrahasam (' Moonsword ', 1980 ) in which he held on to the UV clamp of a massive ship crane and was elevated to a height of around 200 feet before jumping off to the top of the vessel.

vessel and length
A remarkable example of their shipbuilding skills was the Khufu ship, a vessel in length entombed at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2500 BC and found intact in 1954.
* Beam ( nautical ), the most extreme width ( or breadth ) of a nautical vessel, or a point alongside the ship at the midpoint of its length
The ocarina, unlike other vessel flutes, has the unusual quality of not relying on the pipe length to produce a particular tone.
The port provides a 350 metre long wharf accommodating between four and five vessels, with a maximum vessel length of 120 metres and 17 metre beam.
The sailor was tied to a line that looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard on one side of the ship, and dragged under the ship's keel, either from one side of the ship to the other, or the length of the ship ( from bow to stern ).
The blue-striped white-painted superstructure stretches across the full length of the vessel.
The largest vessel handled ( as of 2006 ) is the Norwegian Dream cruise ship ( 220 m in length, 50, 700 gross tonnes ).
a large vessel of water placed in an elevated position ; to the bottom of this vessel was soldered a pipe of small diameter giving a thin jet of water, which we collected in a small glass during the time of each descent, whether for the whole length of the channel or for a part of its length ; the water thus collected was weighed, after each descent, on a very accurate balance ; the differences and ratios of these weights gave us the differences and ratios of the times, and this with such accuracy that although the operation was repeated many, many times, there was no appreciable discrepancy in the results.
* Maximum vessel length:
While Sail Training International ( STI ) has extended the definition of tall ship for the purpose of its races to embrace any sailing vessel with more than waterline length and on which at least half the people on board are aged 15 to 25, this definition can include many modern sailing yachts, so for the purposes of this article, tall ship will mainly refer to those vessels rated as class " A ".
These include variations in the length and diameter of vessel elements in different parts of the plant ; and the ability to reduce transpiration by closing off leaf stomata.
TPR depends on several factors, including the length of the vessel, the viscosity of blood ( determined by hematocrit ) and the diameter of the blood vessel.
It may be a natural crook ( e. g. apple, oak, pohutukawa ) or sawn from a larger length of timber or laminated in a wooden vessel.
This entrance length is estimated to be about the distance that the blood travels in a quarter of a second for blood where red blood cell aggregation is negligible and the vessel diameter is greater than about 20 micrometres.
:( j ) The words “ lengthandbreadthof a vessel mean her length overall and greatest breadth.
Since it is contractile, depending upon the ratio of its length to its radius, it can act either like a contractile chamber propelling the fluid ahead, or as a resistance vessel tending to stop the lymph in its place.
It was speculated in December 2010 ( post SDSR ) that " Current plans seem to point to a single class of vessel about 100m in length and between 2, 000 and 2, 500 tonnes displacement.

vessel and nine
* 1778 – The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
Thorhall takes only nine men, and his vessel is swept out into the ocean by contrary winds ; he and his crew never return.
The vessel floated away from the coast and all three died of thirst nine days later on the waterless Howick No 5 Island.
A second vessel, the Cuba, with a surveyors ' team headed by Captain William Mein Smith, R. A., sailed in August, followed a month later by the first of nine immigrant ships, even before word had reached London of the success of the Tory and Cuba.
The three scientists determined the existence of the species by analysing the morphology and mitochondrial DNA of nine individuals — eight caught by a Japanese research vessel in the late 1970s in the Indo-Pacific and a further specimen collected in 1998 from Tsunoshima island in the Sea of Japan.
Special Boat Teams provided security while a SEAL team boarded the vessel at first light and discovered nine mines on the vessel ’ s deck, as well as a logbook revealing areas where previous mines had been laid.
The pinnace, named Virginia of Sagadahoc, was apparently quite seaworthy, and crossed the Atlantic again successfully in 1609 as part of Sir Christopher Newport's nine vessel Third Supply mission to Jamestown.
Dr. Zaregarizi assessed cardiovascular function ( blood pressure, heart rate, and measurements of blood vessel dilation ) while nine healthy volunteers, 34 years of age on average, spent an hour standing quietly ; reclining at rest but not sleeping ; or reclining to nap.
Among the many famous ships made by the companies were the world's first steel ship, the Ma Roberts, built in 1858 for Dr. Livingstone's Zambezi expedition, CSS Alabama that was built in 1862 for the Confederate States of America, HMS Caroline ( 1914 ) that holds the record fastest build time of any significant warship ( nine months from her keel being laid till her launch ), the first all-welded ship, the Fullagar built in 1920, Cunard's second Mauretania of 1939, the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal ( 1937 ) and the largest vessel to have been built for the Royal Navy HMS Ark Royal ( 1950 ).
At first light, a SEAL team, assisted by Special Boat Teams, boarded the vessel and discovered nine mines on the vessel ’ s deck, as well as a logbook revealing areas where previous mines had been laid.
During Father Le Loutre ’ s War, on February 21, 1753, nine Mi ' kmaq from present-day Antigonish ( Nartigouneche ) in canoes attacked an English vessel from Canso, Nova Scotia which had a crew of four at Country Harbour, Nova Scotia.
In 1901, the DAR owned and operated nine steamships in the Bay of Fundy and Minas Basin services, serving routes between Digby-Saint John, New Brunswick with connections to the CPR and IRC, and Kingsport-Parrsboro-Wolfville connecting at Parrsboro with the Cumberland Railway's line to Springhill ; the MV Kipawo being the 13th and last vessel on this particular service.
The Navy manned each vessel with a regular Navy man as master and nine men from the Sea Fencibles.
On day nine, the crisis deepened on when an Omani gunboat attacks and explodes an unarmed Dutch vessel which tried to go through the Strait of Hormuz.

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