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Originally Posted by Dgill
BTW, Daniel Cleary is a plug.  |
Haha xD
and I'd like to know what is so special about ryan malone that you like him a lot?
He's nice but he seems like more of your common nhl 'er to me.
Of course I dont know a whole lot about him tbh.
why don't you like the wings? I cant believe anyone would dislike them tbh.
Bluenoser - oh right. Its you in Nova Scotia who had the bluenose and later bluenose II, wasnt it?
(for people who don't know what Bluenose or Bluenoser is, here you go)
From Wiki:
The name "bluenose" originated as a nick-name for Nova Scotians.
Designed by William Roué and built by Smith and Rhuland, Bluenose was launched at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada on March 26, 1921, as a racing ship and fishing vessel. 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.
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. It is notable that she was no mere racing ship, but also a general fishing craft that was worked hard throughout her lifetime. She fished scallops and other kinds of sea-food, and at least once won competitions for largest catches of the season and similar awards.[citation needed]
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.
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.
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.
[edit] Bluenose II
Bluenose II in Lunenburg, 2003-10-01
Career
Name: Bluenose II
Launched: 24 July 1963
Fate: Active in service as of 2008
General characteristics
Displacement: 246 tonnes (271 ST)
Length: 46 m (150 ft 11 in) o/a
34 m (111 ft 7 in) lwl
Beam: 8 m (26 ft 3 in)
Draft: 5 m (16 ft 5 in)
Propulsion: Sails
2 auxiliary 250 hp CAT diesel engines
Mainmast, height
from deck 38 m (124 ft 8 in)
Foremast, height
from deck 36 m (118 ft 1 in)
Sail area 1,036 m² (11,150 sq ft)
Mainsail area 386 m² (4,150 sq ft)
Speed: 8 knots (15 km/h) (engine)
16 knots (30 km/h) (under sail)
Crew: 6 Officers, Chief Cook, 15 Deckhands
Her daughter, Bluenose II, was launched at Lunenburg on July 24, 1963, built to original plans by many of the same workers. She cost $208,600 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 31 March 2005, when the government of Nova Scotia placed the vessel under the management of the Lunenburg Marine Museum Society
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