The Brig Amity
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THE BRIG AMITY (R8x40) 3C (4C set) John Brenchley The Reel 3051- 8 1s set cross RH, cast off to 2nd place opposite sides and turn RH to finish in the centre RH joined, facing 1st corners. (2s step up 5-6)
9-12 1st set to 1st corners, change places passing RSh; 2M+3L turn ¼ RH to finish in centre with RH joined facing 3M/2L
13-16 2L+3L and 2M+3M set to each other and change places passing RSh, 2L+3M turn ¼ RH to finish in centre RH joined facing 1L/1M
17-20 1L+2L and 1M+3M set to each other and change places passing RSh
21-24 1s turn 1½ RH to face 1st corners (position)
25-28 1s+2L+3M dance ½ diagonal RSh reel of 4, 1s pass RSh to face 2nd corners (position)
29-32 1s+3L+2M dance ½ diagonal RSh reel of 4, 1s pass RSh to face 3rd corners (position)
33-36 1s+2L+3M dance ½ diagonal RSh reel of 4, 1s join RH on meeting
37-40 1s turn 1½ RH to 2nd place own side while 2s and 3s set and cross RH to own side. 213
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
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A brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and manoeuvrable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels.Amity was built as a brig of 148 tons and was launched at St John's, New Brunswick, in 1816. In 1823 she was purchased by the Scottish Ralston Family to be fitted out for their emigration to Van Diemen's Land (The name was changed from Van Diemen's Land to Tasmania in 1856).
Under the command of Captain McMeckan she departed from Stranraer in southern Scotland on 15 November 1823, across the Atlantic Ocean to Rio de Janeiro and arriving in Hobart exactly five months later on 15 April 1824.
Amity was wrecked after running aground on an uncharted sandbar now called Vansittart Shoals near Vansittart Island, north of Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1845.
The township of Amity and locality of Amity Point on North Stradbroke Island near Brisbane, Queensland, are named after the ship and there are six streets in Brisbane named Amity.
The 38th Australian Winter School in 2013, was held in Amity House, Albany Residential College, Thomas Street, Albany, Western Australia.
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Amity Replica At Albany, Western Australia
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