15,000 Miles in a Ketch is a non-fiction book written by French explorer and sailor Captain Raymond Rallier du Baty, published by Thomas Nelson and Sons...
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elephant seals in the area. Raymond Rallier du Baty wrote a book detailing his experience on the J. B. Charcot, entitled 15,000 Miles in a Ketch. They returned...
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Kerguelen Islands (category Articles lacking in-text citations from March 2018)
du Baty made a privately funded expedition to the island. His autobiographical account of the adventure (1917 - 15,000 Miles in a Ketch. Thomas Nelson...
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volontaires: Aventures aux Kerguelen [originally written in English as "15,000 Miles in a Ketch"], Paris, Le Livre de poche, coll. "La lettre et la plume"...
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Gipsy Moth IV is a 53 ft (16 m) ketch that Sir Francis Chichester commissioned specifically to sail single-handed around the globe, racing against the...
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Francis Chichester (category Deaths from lung cancer in England)
in the 40 foot ocean racing yawl Gipsy Moth III. He came second in the second race four years later. On 27 August 1966 Chichester sailed his ketch Gipsy...
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more than 15,000 nautical miles, visiting 63 ports in 25 countries of Europe and Asia. This is the first time in the history of navigation, that a vessel...
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Amchitka (category Former populated places in Alaska)
with a land area of roughly 116 square miles (300 km2), is about 42 miles (68 km) long and 1 to 4 miles (1.6 to 6.4 km) wide. The area has a maritime...
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List of Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign non-political endorsements (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
Pasek Justin Paul George Porter Jr. Questlove A. R. Rahman Joshua Redman Joe Russo Stephen Schwartz Ketch Secor Marc Shaiman Jeanine Tesori Jeff "Tain"...
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Naval artillery (redirect from Cannons in the Age of Sail)
Early bomb vessels were rigged as ketches with two masts. They were awkward vessels to handle, in part because bomb ketches typically had the masts stepped...
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Northwest Passage (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from May 2019)
record of 20 in 2012. In September 2018, sailing yacht Infinity (a 36.6 m ketch) and her 22-person crew successfully sailed through the Northwest Passage...
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Battle of Bladensburg (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
threatened a raid on Baltimore, while two frigates and some bomb ketches and a rocket vessel ascended the Potomac River, an expedition that resulted in the successful...
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Port Noarlunga, South Australia (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
kilometres upstream. The Onkaparinga River mouth proved unsuitable to coastal ketches, so produce was barged down river to the sandhills and then taken by horse...
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French colonization of Texas (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
Le Joly, the 300-ton storeship L'Aimable, the barque La Belle, and the ketch St. François. Although Louis XIV had provided both Le Joly and La Belle...
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Gone with the Wind (novel) (redirect from Characters in Gone With the Wind)
'Ah will' an' 'Ah woan' mos' gener'ly doan ketch husbands. —Mammy The southern belle is an archetype for a young woman of the antebellum American South...
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Greenpeace (category All Wikipedia articles written in Canadian English)
in New Zealand. In 1972 the yacht Vega, a 12.5-metre (41 ft) ketch owned by David McTaggart, was renamed Greenpeace III and sailed in an anti-nuclear...
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1690 (redirect from Events in 1690)
capture after seizing the ketch Elenor anchored in Boston Harbor the previous year. The Convention Parliament is dissolved in England. February 6 – King...
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"Golden Rule" campaign. The "Golden Rule" was a 30-foot ketch that set sail into the nuclear testing sites in the Pacific Ocean as an act of protest. Peck...
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William Aplin (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
Burketown, ketch named Lalla Rookh, iron steamship Herbert (built for the Company in England in 1884), steel steamship Queensland (built for the Company in Maryborough...
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Anti-nuclear protests (category Technology in society)
1972, the Canadian ketch Vega, flying the Greenpeace III banner, collided with the French naval minesweeper La Paimpolaise while in international waters...
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List of Onedin Line episodes (redirect from A Cold Wind Blowing)
magnetic compass has deviated – paradoxically, because James' new two-masted ketch the Falcon is not carrying her normal cargo of steel plates – for which...
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1690s (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
capture after seizing the ketch Elenor anchored in Boston Harbor the previous year. The Convention Parliament is dissolved in England. February 6 – King...
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Battle of Cartagena de Indias (category 18th century in Colombia)
frigates, fire ships, and bomb ketches...". When compared with a nearly contemporary amphibious expedition described in Pritchard 1995, p. 4 as: 10 ships...
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List of Bermuda hurricanes (category Hurricanes in Bermuda)
life is lost, aboard the ketch General Doyle. In the storm's wake, construction begins on a new breakwater. October 15–19, 1814 – A hurricane strikes the...
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State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (category 1911 establishments in New York (state))
Inventors | Tufts Now". 12 December 2023. Mary Thill (July 2010). "Remembering Ketch: Educator and Conservationist". The Adirondack Almanack. Retrieved 2012-11-01...
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Windsurfing (category Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from January 2021)
production of 15,000 boards. There is no evidence that Schweitzer or Drake had knowledge of any prior inventions similar to theirs. Drake accepted in retrospect...
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Camper and Nicholsons (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
with an LWL of 27 ft, a displacement of 15,904 lb, a long keel, and masthead ketch rig. 134 were built, starting in 1966 and ending in 1975. The first was...
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9 February 2021. alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (O) "In 1909, Thousands Watched a Fiery Funeral for Lake Minnetonka's Largest Boat". lakeminnetonkamag...
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Mullion Cove (category Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from May 2019)
14 miles (23 km) southeast of Penzance by sea. It is 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Helston by land and 13 miles (21 km) southwest of Falmouth by land. In 1937...
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La Belle (ship) (category Archaeological sites in Texas)
Belle, and the ketch St. Francois. The ships carried almost 300 people, including 100 soldiers, six missionaries, eight merchants, over a dozen women and...
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