The Refuge provides crucial habitat for many different types of endangered or threatened birds, including the American Bald Eagle, Peregrine Falcon, American Black Duck, and the Piping Plover.
When he revamped his look in 1976, his vehicle of choice was a Brigantine called "The Albatross".
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After building a small brigantine, the surrounding islands of Malaita, Guadalcanal, Makira (which was named San Cristobal) and Choiseul Island were explored.
Mary Celeste - Atlantic Mutual was also one of the insurers of the Mary Celeste, an American brigantine sailing out of Staten Island, New York.
In March 1746 the French brigantine Le Bien Trouvé entered the tidal waters with dispatches for Bonnie Prince Charlie but her departure, with the Prince’s aide-de-camp on board, was delayed by the arrival of two British men-o’-war.
The brigantine Helen of Dundee, bound for Quebec, foundered at Hasselwood Rock in 1824; "the crew left most of the passengers to drown, including seven women and six children".
Hell Gate serves as the scene for an exciting pursuit of the brigantine "Water Witch" by the HMS Coquette in James Fenimore Cooper's novel of historical fiction, The Water Witch, or, The Skimmer of the Seas.
However, on April 5, 1840 he gave up his office to follow General Morazán into exile, embarking on the brigantine Izalco from the port of La Libertad, La Libertad along with many other followers of Morazán.
What is now Route 87 was initially proposed as Route S4A in 1927, a spur from Route 4 (now U.S. Route 9) in Tuckerton, Ocean County, south through Brigantine to Atlantic City.
In the first one, The Abandoned Brigantine, Sherlock Holmes reveals the solution to the mystery of the Mary Celeste, while in the second, The Gibraltar Letter, the detective solves the case of the abduction of the Duke of Connaught while he was posted to Gibraltar.
Thomas Fuller converted a former tugboat into a brigantine tall ship, the STV Black Jack.
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In the 1980s, he designed and built a brigantine, the STV Fair Jeanne, which was named in honour of his wife.
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The Britannia Yacht Club has used the tug, rigged as a pirate ship known as STV Black Jack since 1983 to train young people to sail through the Bytown Brigantine Inc.