A crib pier is a type of pier built with the supporting columns made of 'cribs'. Typically a crib is made from wood, but it could be made from any long...
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with wooden beams Crib pier, a type of pier built with supporting columns constructed like log cabins Cribbage, a card game Cribbing (horse), a bad habit...
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structure is lowered into its new position. Crib barn Crib pier Crib dam Shoring Using box cribs A description of two men lifting a demountable building...
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to the wooden crib pier style of construction which was used as a foundation for lighthouses. When it came time to build, wooden cribs were constructed...
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without cranes or rams. Less common are crib bridges made from stone, such as the Bailey Island Bridge. Crib pier Mikki Tint (2010). "OregonScape [A.F.Coats...
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served at White Shoal. Construction for this light began in 1908: the crib pier being built in St. Ignace, and transported by ship. The keeper house was...
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The Cheboygan Crib Light is a light that marks the west pier head of the mouth of the Cheboygan River into Lake Huron. The pier head, in the center of...
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The 19th Naval Construction Battalion worked on a rock-filled pile and crib pier 130 feet (40 m) long and 540 feet (160 m) wide for Liberty ships. It was...
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Construction was hampered by difficult digging which had to penetrate crib pier remnants, and old docks, known to be beneath the site. Sinking of a pile...
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Arkansas Highway 310. The corn crib is a small single-story wooden structure, built out of plank framing on a stone pier foundation, with a gabled metal...
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130 enlisted men, a radio station and visual signal post, a 580-foot crib pier, two cruiser-type moorings, a 105,000 barrel tank farm, a 250-pontoon...
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reef. By October 1878 the crib was filled with concrete and stone from a quarry opened on Huron Island. By June 1879 an iron pier had been built up to the...
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1931, not only marks the channel, but also is built atop DeTour Reef on a crib structure, and warns boats away from it. The lighthouse and its concrete...
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5 m) pontoon barges were secured to 16-by-16-foot (4.9 by 4.9 m) timber crib piers, which were connected to the shore by ramps made of girders covered with...
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Mornington Peninsula (section Crib Point Project)
and mudflats in the waters of Western Port before it tapers down to form Crib Point, Stony Point and Sandy Point at the peninsula's most south-easterly...
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is part of an urban enclave on Western Port comprising Hastings, Bittern, Crib Point, Tyabb, and Somerville. It is served by Hastings railway station on...
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in the United States Army Corps of Engineers's use of timber crib substructures in pier and breakwater construction. Beginning in the 1840s, the area...
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This position fell through, and White worked that summer building the crib pier at Waugoshance. When not working on the lighthouse, White worked as a...
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Navigation Structures at Saugatuck Harbor (category Piers on the National Register of Historic Places)
100 feet long Riprap is placed on both sides of the crib. Inland of the cribs, the remaining pier sections are constructed of wood piling spaced 13 feet...
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1905 and was finished that September. The approach spans were built on crib piers that rested along flatcars, with each span slightly overhanging the shore...
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Pier A, also known as City Pier A, is a pier in the Hudson River at Battery Park in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It was built from 1884 to 1886 as the...
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the mouth of the river to break river-powered ice floes. Above the crib and pier, the 49 feet (15 m) high cast iron boiler plate tower is 22 feet (6...
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The St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights are lighthouses in St. Joseph, Michigan, US, at the entrance to the St. Joseph River on Lake Michigan...
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8916°W / 46.9467; -90.8916 (Hokenson Fishing Dock) Bayfield Dock built on crib piers in 1927 by the three Hokensen brothers, who ran an independent fishing...
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in the cribs, but glimpses inspired by the life of the common people of a fishing village: fishermen, carpenters, puppeteers. Every year the crib is enriched...
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The Canterbury Tales (film) (category Films directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Canterbury) is a 1972 medieval erotic black comedy Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini based on the medieval narrative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer....
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product of a tradition going back over a century of Latin translations for "crib" (reading aid) purposes. His Latin translations of Homer published in 1537...
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log cribbing construction of native palmetto trees to last for many generations. The pier marks the southern edge of the park. At sunset The pier and...
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harbor daily. However, the harbor itself was protected only by timber crib piers originally constructed in the 1870s. However, by 1910, leaders in Manistique...
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