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  • Thumbnail for Loft
    moulds, are fashioned (see lofting). An elevated area or gallery in a shipyard where workers stand while fitting rigging. A large, open, high ceilinged...
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    Fly system (redirect from Rigging (theatre))
    loft structure. An operating line (a.k.a. hand line or purchase line) allows riggers on the fly crew to raise and lower the batten. Automated rigging...
    64 KB (9,907 words) - 11:36, 29 April 2024
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    painted on canvas and mounted on wooden frames, were installed in a rigging loft, known as a fly system, a large wooden open frame equipped with the pulleys...
    104 KB (9,734 words) - 19:25, 13 May 2024
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    shipyard had a joiners' shop, a boat-building shed and a sailmaking and rigging loft. During these boom years, Ramsden proposed building a planned town to...
    153 KB (15,807 words) - 15:59, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Slave labor on United States military installations 1799–1863
    offense he was taken to the Rigging Loft for punishment, "We all hands of the ordernary men Wher cauledup in to the rigin loft to giv an acount of our selves...
    98 KB (14,672 words) - 18:44, 8 March 2024
  • 17 data pages, 2 photo caption pages HABS No. HI-488, "Paint Shop & Rigging Loft, Sixth Street between Avenues E & G", 7 photos, 22 data pages, 1 photo...
    71 KB (10,340 words) - 02:49, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Philip Embury
    first in his own house on Barrack Street, now Park Place, and then in a rigging loft on what is now William Street. The congregation thus formed was probably...
    6 KB (672 words) - 15:19, 11 May 2024
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    of his shines at the house on the 4 and they taking him down to the rigging loft that it give him a starting.” A "starting", flagellation, is a beating...
    16 KB (2,050 words) - 01:01, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tremont Theatre, Boston (1889)
    shades. The stage is 73 by 45 feet, with a height of 69 feet to the rigging loft. The house has 2,000 seats." "In 1947 the Tremont became a movie theater...
    10 KB (686 words) - 09:31, 12 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Tibbits Opera House
    technological features. Scenery and curtains were shifted and moved via the rigging loft, and the stage itself included a "paint-bridge and movable frame, five...
    38 KB (5,382 words) - 19:45, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Port of Barrow
    shipyard had a joiners' shop, a boat-building shed and a sailmaking and rigging loft. The Barrow Shipbuilding Company was taken over by the Sheffield steel...
    24 KB (2,139 words) - 17:57, 29 September 2022
  • halfway between the stage floor and the loft blocks. The truss is considered as to be the most important rigging system in theater because it consists of...
    15 KB (2,052 words) - 15:57, 9 February 2024
  • Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z) (category Sailing rigs and rigging)
    arrangement of masts, sails, and rigging on a sailing vessel. 2.  To fit a sailing vessel with its masts, sails or rigging. rigging The system of masts and lines...
    251 KB (31,530 words) - 13:14, 13 May 2024
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    anchor, was taken from an oyster schooner. The standing rigging was built by Hamilton Seine Loft. List of schooners "Coast Guard Vessel Documentation"....
    4 KB (177 words) - 16:37, 8 March 2024
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    Clemons and Oliver Pagttie. Additional expert tradesmen were hired for the rigging (George Herbert/Ivan Hope), ship's carpentry, machinery (Alan Fleming,...
    6 KB (501 words) - 17:44, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Garden Island Naval Precinct
    rank status.: 137  A combined Rigging Shed and Sail Loft was to be commenced first, with the foundations of the Rigging Workshop, Kitchen Block, Anchor...
    63 KB (9,082 words) - 09:53, 6 February 2024
  • and Anchor Wharf, with shots of Dover Castle in Dover. The Sail and Colour Loft exterior, Church Lane, and Ropery exterior of the Dockyard doubled as East...
    15 KB (1,558 words) - 06:16, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Garden Island (New South Wales)
    Cowper Wharf Roadway: Sydney Harbour Naval Precinct Rigging House of 1887 (boat shed below, sail loft above partly converted into a chapel in 1902) Interconnected...
    26 KB (2,396 words) - 03:04, 30 October 2023
  • knowledge of sailmaking and rigging, both for traditional and modern vessels. Ships that have or have had sails and/or rigging built by Wilson include the...
    2 KB (177 words) - 22:03, 11 August 2021
  • Thumbnail for Garden Island Naval Chapel
    the chapel was established in 1902 after conversion from the former sail loft and is the oldest Christian chapel of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and...
    17 KB (1,547 words) - 01:04, 5 March 2024
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