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| | Launched: | March 26, 1921 | | Fate: | In January 1946, struck a reef off the coast of Haiti, and sank. | | General Characteristics | | Displacement: | 258 metric ton | | Total Length: | 49 m | | Length, waterline: | 34 m | | Beam: | 8 m | | Draft: | 5 m | | Mainmast,height from deck: | 38 m | | Formast,height from deck: | 36 m | | Propulsion: | Sails, Masts | | Sail area: | 1036 m² | | Mainsail area: | 386 m² | | Crew: | 5 Officers, Chief Cook, 12 Deckhands | For other uses, see Bluenose (disambiguation) Image File history File links Canadian_Red_Ensign_1921. ...
March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (86th in leap years). ...
Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for full calendar). ...
A reef surrounding an islet. ...
Bluenose has several meanings: Bluenose, a 1929 Canadian postage stamp Bluenose, a Canadian schooner Bluenose, a character from TUGS Category: ...
Bluenose was a Canadian schooner from Nova Scotia, a celebrated racing ship and a symbol of the province. The name "bluenose" originated as a nick-name for Nova Scotians. Two-masted fishing schooner A schooner (IPA: ) is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts. ...
Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit(Latin) One defends and the other conquers Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Regional Municipality Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis - Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 11 - Senate seats 10 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area...
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Designed by William Roué and built by Smith and Rhuland, Bluenose was launched at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on March 26, 1921, as both a working cod-fishing schooner and a racing ship. This was in response to the defeat of the Nova Scotian Fishing Schooner Delawana by the Gloucester Fishing Schooner Esperanto in 1920. That race was sponsored by the Halifax Herald newspaper. William James Roué (April 27, 1879 - January 14, 1970) was a naval architect, famous for his design of the Bluenose fishing schooner. ...
Lunenburg waterfront Lunenburg waterfront (as viewed from a hotel) Lunenburg ( ) is a small town on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada approximately 90 kilometres southwest of Halifax, on the Atlantic coast. ...
March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (86th in leap years). ...
Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for full calendar). ...
the world is coming to the end!!!!! cod is going to eat up alive and do us hard up the emmm. ...
The Gloucester Schooner Esperanto was winner of first International Fishermans Schooner Race. ...
The Chronicle-Herald is a broadsheet published in Halifax, Nova Scotia. ...
After a season fishing on the Grand Banks, Bluenose defeated Elsie (out of Gloucester, Massachusetts), returning the trophy to Nova Scotia. During the next 17 years of racing, no challenger, American or Canadian, could wrest the International Fishermen's Trophy from her. Map showing the Grand Banks Historic map of the Grand Banks. ...
Settled: 1623 – Incorporated: 1642 Zip Code(s): 01930 – Area Code(s): 351 / 978 Official website: http://www. ...
Fishing schooners became obsolete after World War II, and despite efforts to keep her in Nova Scotia, the undefeated Bluenose was sold to work as a freighter in the West Indies. She foundered on a Haitian reef on January 28, 1946. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. ...
January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
Bluenose and her captain, Angus Walters, were inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1955, making her the first and only non-human CSHF inductee until 1960, when she was joined by Canadian Hydroplane Champion Miss Supertest III. That same year another honour was bestowed upon the famous sailing ship when a new Canadian National Railways passenger-vehicle ferry for the inaugural Yarmouth-Bar Harbor service was launched as the M/V Bluenose. Canadas Sports Hall of Fame is a Hall of Fame established in 1955 to preserve the record of Canadian sports achievements and to promote a greater awareness of Canadas heritage of sport[1]. As of June 2004, there were 436 inductees. ...
Miss Supertest II was the fastest hydroplane propeller-driven powerboat in the world, setting a water speed record of 296. ...
CN redirects here, as its the most common usage of the abbreviation in Canada; for more uses, see CN (disambiguation). ...
Location of Yarmouth within Nova Scotia. ...
Bar Harbor, Maine, it the name of two places in Maine Bar Harbor, census-designated place Bar Harbor a larger town This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Bluenose, under full sail, is portrayed on the 1929 Canadian Bluenose postage stamp as well as on two other stamps issued in 1982 and 1999 and also appears on the current Nova Scotia licence plate. The depiction of a generic schooner on the Canadian dime has for years been commonly known as the Bluenose. In 2002, the government of Canada declared the depiction on the dime to be the Bluenose. The Bluenose is the nickname for a 50-cent definitive postage stamp issued by the Canadian Post Office on 8 January 1929 as part of the King George V Scroll Issueâ€. Scott number is 158 with a perforation of 12. ...
Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit(Latin) One defends and the other conquers Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Regional Municipality Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis - Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 11 - Senate seats 10 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area...
A license plate, licence plate, number plate or registration plate (often referred to simply as a plate, or colloquially tag) is a small metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle for official identification purposes. ...
In Canada a dime is a coin worth ten cents. ...
Bluenose II Her daughter, Bluenose II, was launched at Lunenburg on July 24, 1963, built to original plans by many of the same workers. She cost $300,000 to build and was financed by the Oland Family as a marketing tool for their brewery operations in Halifax and Saint John. Her popularity led to her being sold to the government of Nova Scotia which in turn gave possession of the ship to the Bluenose II Preservation Trust. The trust's mandate was to restore the aging and poorly maintained ship to full operational status and to operate her for the people of Nova Scotia. Over the winter of 1994-95 the trust restored the ship’s hull, leading to her being recommissioned in May 1995. The trust maintained and operated Bluenose II until March 31 2005, when the government of Nova Scotia placed the vessel under the management of the Lunenburg Marine Museum Society. July 24 is the 205th day (206th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 160 days remaining. ...
1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ...
Halifax skyline at night Halifax neighbourhoods and boundaries of former city in relation to Halifax Regional Municipality Halifax, founded in 1749, is a community and former city in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. ...
Saint John[3] is the largest city in the province of New Brunswick and the oldest incorporated city in Canada. ...
The Bluenose II serves as a goodwill ambassador, tourist attraction in Lunenburg, and symbol of the province. During the summer, she visits ports all around Nova Scotia and frequently sails to other ports on the eastern seaboard.
In honour of her predecessor, Bluenose II does not officially race.
Bluenose II, like her predecessor, had the largest working mainsail in the world, measuring 386 m² (4,155 ft²); she has a total sail area of 1036 m² (11,150 ft²). Currently, the sloop Mirabella V has the largest working mainsail in the world among all sailing ships, measuring 1557 m² (16,760 ft²). A mainsail is the most important sail raised from the main (or only) mast of a sailing vessel. ...
Mirabella V is a sloop-rigged super yacht launched in 2003. ...
Funds for the operation of the ship are raised through charging for passage on the vessel, public donations, and sales in the Fisheries Museum Gift Shop (in Luneneburg), run by the Lunenburg Marine Museum Society.
Image File history File links Bluenose. ...
Bluenose III Vince Dow, the great-grandson of the designer, has started the fund raising to build a new Bluenose. Ms. Roue sees the need for a new ambassador for Nova Scotia and Canada. There is a web-site schoonerbluenose.ca which lists all the particulars. The Bluenose II still visits ports throughout the Eastern U.S. and Canada, including the Great Lakes.
Books - Witch in the Wind:The True Story of the Legendary Bluenose by Marq de Villiers. Thomas Allen Publishers, 2007 $36.95
A Race for Real Sailors - The Bluenose and the International Fishermen's Race 1920 - 1938 by Keith McLaren. Douglas & McIntyre Publisher 2006
In the Media Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers honours both ships in his song Bluenose, found on his albums Turnaround, released in 1978, and Home In Halifax, released posthumously in 1994. A sailing ship called 'Bluenose' appears in the 1990s children's television program, Theodore Tugboat.
Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ...
Stanley Allison Rogers (November 29, 1949 – June 2, 1983) was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter. ...
Jargon used in the chemical manufacturing and petroleum refining industries. ...
Home in Halifax is a 1993 (see 1993 in music) live album by Stan Rogers. ...
Theodore Tugboat is a television show for children about a little tugboat, his friends, and their adventures in the Big Harbour. ...
Tradition In traditions associated with Sailors and Marines crossing the Arctic Circle line, there was a "raucous and rowdy" initiation presided over by those who had crossed the line before, known as "Order of the Blue Nose". The eldest Sailor was called King Neptune, and the next eldest was his assistant who was called Davy Jones. Some form of hazing would be carried out by the senior crewmen.
"Blue Nose" Crossing of the Arctic Circle (66-32 North latitude). See also "Arctic Circle", "Order of the Blue Nose" and "Northern Domain of the Polar Bear." World map showing the Arctic Circle in red A sign along the Dalton Highway marking the location of the Arctic Circle The Arctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. ...
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