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The Mug Race is an annual sailing race held on St. Johns River in the US state of Florida. Billed as the "World's Longest River Race", the course starts in Palatka and ends in Jacksonville . To compete, masts must be under 44 feet in order to clear all bridges along the course.
Research was a full-rigged ship built in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia which was famous for a determined and courageous crew who replaced her rudder eight times to survive a crippling North Atlantic storm in 1866. Research was built in 1861 for the fleet of Thomas Killam and was the largest vessel built to that date in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.
Yarmouth's marina in 2022, looking south. Also known as Falls Village or The Falls, Lower Falls (named for the nearby First Falls) was the location of several mills from the 17th century onward, while—on the southern side of today's East Main Street Bridge—was Yarmouth's harbor, where many hundreds of ships were built and launched in the century between 1790 and 1890.
There's a small parking area off Route 6A, located next to the Yarmouth Port post office — but don't park in the post office lot! Along the scenic Pond Trail at the Historical Society of Old ...
YARMOUTH — Levee Breaks Investment Group LLC, a Yarmouth-based investment company that declared bankruptcy on Oct. 21, 2021, has left 70 creditors, including 55 investors, holding the bag.
On October 9, 2002, while over the Bering Sea, the Boeing 747-400 experienced a lower rudder hardover event, which occurs when an aircraft's rudder deflects to its travel limit without crew input. The 747's hardover gave full left lower rudder, requiring the pilots to use full right upper rudder and right aileron to maintain attitude and course.
Mysterious tar balls washed up on several Florida beaches, forcing closures and triggering an investigation by the U.S. Coast Guard. Fort Lauderdale’s shoreline was among the most impacted ...
William Royall (c. 1595 –1676) was a 17th-century English emigrant to the New England Colonies.The Royal River in Maine is named for him. [1] [2] (It was named Yarmouth River at the time of his inhabitance in the area, which was then part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.)