It can be a lookout point on land as well as on top of a ship's mast
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Pirate Glossary - Black Bart's Locker  ABBEY LUBBER : A loiterer that could work but will not. ... ALOFT : The top part of the masts and rigging. .... CARDINAL POINTS : The general name for the north, east, south and west points ... A good place to watch out for other ships or land. .... LOOKOUT : A crew member posted to keep watch, often from the crow's nest,...
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crow's nest - Memidex dictionary/thesaurus  "crow's nest" definition: platform for a lookout at or near the top of a mast. ... upper part of the main mast of a ship or structure that is used as a lookout point. This position ensured the best view of the approaching hazards, other ships or land. ... a small closed space near the top of a ship's mast, from which a person can see in...
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A Pirate's Glossary of Terms - The Pirate's Treasure  barque (also bark) - A sailing ship with from three to five masts, all of them square-rigged .... Compass - A navigational instrument with 32 points to determine direction. ... of a mast, where a lookout could have a better view when watching for sails or for land. ... It was used for fighting in close quarters, as well as cutting rope.
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Crow's nest - Wikipedia  A crow's nest is a structure in the upper part of the main mast of a ship or a structure that is used as a lookout point. This position ensured the best view for lookouts to spot approaching hazards, other ships, or land. ... A crow's nest works in most environments and provides a good lookout point (hence the name) when built in...
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Pirate Dictionary - The Pirate Ship  Able Seaman - A capable and good sailor. ... Crow's Nest - A lookout point at the top of the highest mast of a ship. Cutlass ... Gangplank - A plank of wood put on the side of a ship and rested on land, so that people can get on and off the ship.
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Other Traditions of the United States Naval Services  For example, two bells in the forenoon watch would signify 9:00 a.m., five ... sounded throughout the two dog watches in a continuous one-through-eight sequence. .... notwithstanding that none of these ranks existed at the time in the U.S. Navy. ... a ship displaying one of these flags or arriving at a station where one of them...
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extracted text - Index to the Honolulu Advertiser & Star-Bulletin, 1929 ...  EARHART, AMELIA, 1898-1937 ... Birds threaten hop to Howland Island S 2/13/37 ... Plaque to honor Earhart S 3/4/37 p3 ... Light on again in Amelia's lighthouse ... Navy releases file on aviatrix A 7/15/67 ... Cities can be built to survey quake S
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Free Flashcards about FAMOUS SHIPS - StudyStack  LORD NELSON'S FLAGSHIP AT THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR AND THE OLDEST WARSHIP STILL ... BEST KNOWN FOR ITS GLOBAL CIRCUMNAVIGATION BETWEEN 1577 AND 1580, CAPTAINED ... LORD NELSON HAD ONE OF THESE NAILED TO THE MAST OF HIS FLAGSHIP FOR GOOD LUCK, HORSESHOE.
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Skyscrapers w/dirigible mooring masts - SkyscraperPage Forum  Skyscrapers w/dirigible mooring masts Buildings & Architecture. ... Here is one of the First National Bank Building in Downtown Tulsa. .... me good sir, but is that a dirigible moored to your mast or are you just happy to see me?
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Seven Wonders - Empire State Building  In 1930 the Bank of Manhattan skyscraper was completed. ... decided to add a two-hundred-foot-high mast that would be designed to moor dirigibles. ... Also, the Empire State Building's mooring mast would have only allowed the nose of ... minutes, the only time a blaze at that height has ever been successfully controlled.
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My Quest for Catharpins - Old Salt BlogOld Salt Blog  Sep 23, 2008 ... Their approach is like that of reading the more technical sub-genres of ... Even if you do plan on sailing on a square rigger, it might not help. ... and would have the opportunity to climb the rigging and to see for myself. It took only a few minutes aboard to understand that my search for ..... Tall & Historic Ships.
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coast  cornishbirdblog  Part way up the valley is the ruin of a mill and it is behind this roofless shell on the ... that they were built on sea shores to protect sailors by sending them fair winds. ... Well just off the coast of Cape Cornwall there are a couple of massive rocky .... It has no roof, it is now open to the elements and it's glassless windows stare...
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Full-rigged ship - Wikipedia  A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is term of art denoting a sailing vessel's sail plan with three ... Alternatively, a full-rigged ship may be referred to by its function instead, as in collier or frigate, rather than being called a ship. ... Foremast, which is the second tallest mast; Mainmast, the tallest; Mizzenmast, the third tallest...
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J! Archive - Show #5142, aired 2007-01-09  Jan 9, 2007 ... Once the islands' tallest structure, a tower at Honolulu Harbor has this ... Charles Lindbergh is buried near the foot of Haleakala on this island...
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Kilauea Point Lighthouse Is Historic North Shore Landmark | Kauai, Hi.  Sep 20, 2010 ... Kilauea Point Lighthouse Is Historic North Shore Landmark ... 203-acre Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge is one of Hawaii's finest bird watching locations. ... the Lighthouse was the world's largest clamshell lens, weighing four tons. ... Coldwell Banker Bali Hai Realty has pledged substantial donations...
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jeopardy/1289_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THE TITANIC | 2 of these towered over the deck & were used as flagpoles & to string the wireless aerial | masts. right: Wrong: Triple Stumper. Steve: What are...
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Observation Deck - Space Needle  WHERE STARING IS ENCOURAGED. At 520 feet, nothing blocks you from a 360 degree panorama of the Emerald City. Mountain ... Mt Rainier, ever-present from afar. Head up and see what all the oohhhs and ahhhhhs are about. Stare all...
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Naval Terms & Phraseology - The Goat Locker  We also used several nautical novels, such as Mr. Dana's Two Years Before the Mast, .... Binnacle List  The binnacle list gets its name from the old nautical practice of ... Sailors who found these cannon balls rolling about the deck now knew just ... Sometimes a small settlement would build a tower to induce a train to stop...
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Other Traditions of the United States Naval Services  In the U.S. Navy, bells are sounded throughout the two dog watches in a ... second) dog watch, then rings two at 7:00, three at 7:30 and eight at 8:00. .... a ship displaying one of these flags or arriving at a station where one of them is displayed. .... On the day after notification, one gun every half hour from 0800 until sunset,...
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Sails  If you accept this fact, you will appreciate the importance of giving your very best ... for the Marblehead class model racing yacht, the instructions given would apply equally ... Jib forestay, at point of mast attachment, must not exceed 80 per cent of sail plan ... Occasionally one, or more, of these can be obtained at the ordinary...
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Planning a trip to Chicago: The best things to do and see  Jun 9, 2016 ... Here are 10 tips to make a trip to the Windy City easy to afford. .... The four-masted schooner Windy is moored at Navy Pier and the ... also is a tourist destination, with narrated boat cruises taking tourists past skyscrapers and landmarks. The Chicago Architecture Foundation's 90-minute cruises from the...