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To reach New York for the July 14 parade up the Hudson River, some of these tall ships will have sailed from their home ports as long ago as early March. Some will have raced from Plymouth, England, to Lisbon, Portugal, then 3000 miles across the Atlantic to Bermuda rendezvous, and a 630-mile northwest run, in company, to New York.
The George Washington Bridge measures 4,760 feet (1,450 m) long, and its main span is 3,500 feet (1,100 m) long. It was the longest main bridge span in the world from its 1931 opening until the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opened in 1937. The George Washington Bridge is an important travel corridor within the New York metropolitan area ...
Ship Canal Bridge: Lake Washington Ship Canal: 1961 Washington: 181 ft (55.2 m) Sunshine Skyway Bridge: Tampa Bay: 1987: Florida: 180 ft (54.9 m) Deception Pass Bridge: Puget Sound: 1935: Washington: 178 ft (54.3 m) Fred Hartman Bridge: Houston Ship Channel: 1995: Texas: 177 ft (53.9 m) Rainbow Bridge: Neches River: 1936: Texas: 175 ft (53.3 m ...
Star Flyer, a 112 m (367 ft) sail cruise ship launched in 1991, in the Pacific. This is a list of large sailing vessels, past and present, including sailing mega yachts, tall ships, sailing cruise ships, and large sailing military ships. It is sorted by overall length.
The Port Townsend Ship Canal (also known as the Portage Canal) is a 4,800-foot (1,500 m) canal connecting Port Townsend Bay and Oak Bay in Jefferson County, Washington. Built in 1915, the canal separates Indian Island from the Quimper Peninsula of mainland Washington. State Route 116 crosses the only bridge over the
Adventuress was built for John Borden at the Rice Brothers' yard in East Boothbay, Maine, and was designed by B.B. Crowninshield.Borden intended to sail to Alaska to catch a bowhead whale for the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
the George Washington Memorial Bridge (commonly called the Aurora Bridge) carrying Aurora Avenue N. (State Route 99) over the west end of Lake Union; the Fremont Bridge connecting 4th Avenue N. to Fremont Avenue N. over the Fremont Cut; Northern Pacific Railroad Ship Canal Bridge near the west end of the Fremont Cut 1914–1976, no longer extant.
A.J. Meerwald, later known as Clyde A. Phillips, is a restored dredging oyster schooner, whose home port is in the Bivalve section of Commercial Township in Cumberland County, New Jersey. The gaff-rigged schooner was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1995 for her significance in architecture, commerce, and ...