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Constructed of wood, similar to fishing dories built in Atlantic Canada and New England, the iceboats were operated in the Northumberland Strait during the 19th century and early 20th century, running between Prince Edward Island and the mainland provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia during the winter months between December and April when sea ice made passage by non-icebreaking steam ...
Throughout the 1970s until the new MV Abegweit entered service in 1982, John Hamilton Gray was the largest and most powerful ferry on the Northumberland Strait. John Hamilton Gray was designed to be compatible with the A Dock at both Borden and Cape Tormentine which was in use by the original MV Abegweit (and whose design is traced to the SS ...
The new MV Abegweit was a much larger and more capable vessel - the largest on the Northumberland Strait service and she became the flagship of this route. Measuring 401 feet (122 m) in length and displacing 12,000 tons, the ship had six main engines which generated 18,000 brake horsepower (13 MW) which drove two stern propellers and two bow ...
Michael Howley, 52, the owner of Seadogz, the company which operated the boat trip, is accused of not operating the boat safely. In the video clip shown to the jury at Winchester Crown Court, the ...
A speedboat crash that killed a 15-year-old girl and seriously injured several other people was an “accident waiting to happen”, according to a report.
David Vinckboons: Landscape with skaters (cca. 1615), 17th century boer type iceboats Boer Ice sailing in the Netherlands in 1938. An iceboat (occasionally spelled ice boat or traditionally called an ice yacht) is a recreational or competition sailing craft supported on metal runners for traveling over ice. One of the runners is steerable.
One person died and eleven others were injured when the boat capsized during Lockport Cave tour
Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, Constable of the Tower of London, 1430 – 1475.He fell overboard a ship and his body was found in the English Channel; George, Duke of Clarence (born 1449), executed for treason against his brother king Edward IV of England on 1478, by drowning in a barrel of Malmsey wine; or so the legend says, because modern assessments favour the traditional decapitation ...