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ketch

a two-masted sailing vessel, fore-and-aft rigged, with a tall mainmast and a mizzen stepped forward of the rudderpost
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Target: Schooner gas field unit, Ketch gas field unit
The Ketch and Schooner Fields are located 150 kilometres from the Theddlethorpe Gas Terminal on the Lincolnshire coast.
"As a result, and bearing in mind the possibility of the ketch drifting onto the rocky shoreline in the breezy conditions he radioed Holyhead Coastguard to ask for help.
Sam Dunn's high and swirling cross was only half-cleared by Ketch, and Grady was on hand to stab the loose ball into the unguarded net to put the visitors 1-0 up.
Gelder, editor of Yachting Monthly magazine, launched the Gipsy Moth IV project in 2004, to rescue the famous 53-foot ketch, rotting away in dry dock at Greenwich, and sail her around the world for a second time, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sir Francis Chichester's 1966-67 voyage and the magazine's 100th birthday.
Aneze's friend Ketch and Ketch's family provide the family and home that Aneze was searching for.
Accommodation is on a large twin-masted ketch which has excellent facilities including six twin en-suite cabins a dining saloon and small bar, with plenty of deck space for viewing or just relaxing.
Nick Williams, a crew member on The Lady Washington, a full-scale replica of a square-rigged brig, coils a line on the dock as the vessel and its companion vessel, the square topsail ketch Hawaiian Chieftain, visit Coos Bay.
Founded in 1965 and based in New Jersey, Herb's markets products such as crab cake and frozen seafood dishes under the Kaptain's Ketch brand in all channels of distribution including foodservice, retail and club stores.
(ACZ604) ANDY MAH - KETCH RESOURCES TRUST (KER:TSX).
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