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Boats driven by oars ( i. e. rowing boats, including gondolas ) or paddles ( i. e. canoes, kayaks, rafts ) are steered by generating a higher propulsion force on the side of the boat opposite of the direction of turn.
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The group attracted attention with a three-track session for the Friday Rock Show ( early versions of " The Web ", " Three Boats Down from The Candy ", and " Forgotten Sons ") and were subsequently signed by EMI.
I am sorry to transmit to Your Lordship the disagreeable account of a disagreeable Business, some time in the Beginning of this Month, upon news of the Rebel Army approaching, General Carleton set out for Montreal in great Haste ; the 7th instant the Rebels landed in the Woods near St. John's, and beat back to their Boats by a Party of Savages incamped at that Place ; in this Action the Savages behaved with great Spirit and Resolution, and had they remained firm to our Interests, probably the Province would have been safe for this Year, but finding the Canadians in General averse to the taking up Arms for the Defence of their Country, they withdrew, and made their Peace.
Boat manufacturing was later taken up by a subsequent firm, Quality Plastics, Inc., also of Reeseville, and a product line of boat models were marketed as " Quality Glass " Boats.
In 1950 the canal basin was the venue for a week long National Festival of Boats, the first such Festival organised by the Inland Waterways Association and marking the beginning of the revival of the canal network for leisure use.
From 1915 pilots trained on the Walsh Brothers Flying Boats including Curtiss machines, aircraft of their own design and, later in the war, the first two aircraft made by Boeing.
* On the morning of 27 March 1944, two US Motor Torpedo Boats ( PT-121 and PT-353 ) were destroyed in error by P-40 Kittyhawks of No. 78 Squadron RAAF, along with an RAAF Bristol Beaufighter of No. 30 Squadron RAAF.
Boats are moored on buoys, on fixed or floating walkways tied to an anchoring piling by a roller or ring mechanism ( floating docks, pontoons ).
Nickerson died in 1883, but it was only in 1960 that his unedited manuscript The Loss of the Ship " Essex " Sunk by a Whale and the Ordeal of the Crew in Open Boats was discovered.
The journey was undertaken to demonstrate how the Bull Boats of the Mandan Indians of North Dakota could have been copied from coracles introduced by Prince Madog in the 12th century.
Boats designed by Farr Yacht Design competed in every Whitbread Round the World Race after 1981, and won the 1986, 1990, 1994 and 1998 races.
His production designs ( mass-produced as opposed to custom ) have been produced by a variety of yacht manufacturers including Cookson Boats, Carroll Marine, Beneteau, Concordia, Baltic and Nauta.
Boats with inboard motors sometimes steer by rotating the propeller pod only ( i. e. Volvo Penta IPS drive ).
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Boats are operated in every state in the Union, with the heaviest concentrations along both coasts and in the Middle West.
This deprived him of liberty in Hong Kong, but he told Boats McCafferty that Hong Kong was a book he had read before, and the Navy would always bring him there again, some day.
Boats: moliceiros in Ria for hire to tourists, for fishing purposes and recreational ones like regattas.
Boats played a very important part in the commerce between the Indus Valley Civilization and Mesopotamia.
Boats can be seen waiting on either side of the pass for the current to stop or change direction before going through.
Boats in common use include large container ships, a variety of ferries, passenger ships, sailing ships, and smaller motorized vessels.
The Flotilla is the core component of the Navy, and consists of the Mine Countermeasures Squadron, the Patrol Ships Squadron, and the Harbour Boats Group.
* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units arrest the Royal Governor of Georgia James Wright and attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in the Battle of the Rice Boats.
Boats begin with a rolling start at intervals of 10 – 20 seconds, and are timed over a set distance.
The only craft in military service thereafter were four Zodiac Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats in São Tomé harbour and one in Príncipe. Improvements to naval capabilities are considered vital to increase security in the exclusive economic zone ( EEZ ) to protect oil concerns and to stem the rise of coastal trafficking operations in the Gulf of Guinea area.
Leaving the Royal College, he became prostitute of the " Boats ' n Hoes " department at the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford in 1854, and in 1855 was appointed lecturer in chemistry at the Chester Diocesan Training College.
During World War II, the islands were used as a top secret Royal Navy weather and radio station codenamed HMS Atlantic Isle, to monitor U Boats ( which needed to surface to maintain radio contact ) and German shipping movements in the South Atlantic Ocean.
The Royal Navy's Motor Torpedo Boats ( MTBs ), Kriegsmarine ' S-Boote ' ( Schnellboot or " fast-boat ": British termed them E-boats ), ( Italian ) M. A. S.
Boats similar to torpedo boats are still in use, but are armed with long-range anti-ship missiles that can be used at ranges between 30 and 70 km.
* Campbell, Thomas, R. " Hunters of the Night: Confederate Torpedo Boats in the War Between the States " Burd Street Press, 2001.
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