A floating dock, floating harbour or wet dock is a dock alongside a tidal waterway which maintains a 'constant' level, despite the changing tides. At...
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A floating dock may refer to a number of constructions found in ports and harbours Floating dock (impounded), a development of the half tide dock, where...
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platform Ferry slip: a specialized docking facility that receives a ferryboat Floating dock (impounded) Floating dock (jetty): a walkway over water, made...
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the dock. A pontoon in Sydney Gaza floating pier, a floating pier built during the Israel–Hamas war Floating dock (impounded), other types of floating docks...
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(750 ft) long with cargoes of 40 to 50 percent of its capacity. The dock operates floating crane facilities at the deep drafted anchorages located at Sagar...
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[citation needed] The impounding station alongside Huskisson Dock was a pumping station used to maintain water levels in these 'floating' docks. Baines 1859,...
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Sharpness, Gloucestershire (redirect from Sharpness docks)
The Port Authority for the impounded dock is Canal & River Trust, but the quayside activities are run by Sharpness Dock Limited. The competent (statutory)...
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Port of Kolkata (section Dock systems)
in these dry docks. All the dry docks are inside the impounded dock system. There are five dry docks of which three are in Kidderpore Dock and two are...
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Port of Grimsby (redirect from Old Dock, Grimsby)
high water, allowing 24hr operations. The floating pontoon berth was sited in the north-east corner of the dock, at the site of the (1966) roll-on/roll-of...
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around Brexit. Shortly after arriving in Ipswich the vessel was impounded in the dock by coastguard officers because "load line certificates [were] missing...
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Houseboat (redirect from Floating House)
no more than 25 floating homes can be built. The homes in Toronto are built on concrete barges chained to the lake bottom and docked at the marina to...
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Port of Hull (redirect from Queen's Dock, Hull)
Town Docks. The first was The Dock (1778), (or The Old Dock, known as Queen's Dock after 1855), followed by Humber Dock (1809) and Junction Dock (1829)...
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and Recreation. Amenities include a motel, cabins, swimming pool, floating fuel dock, slip and boat rentals, and a full-service restaurant. Lewis and Clark...
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water at low tide. Such piers provided an economical alternative to impounded docks where cargo volumes were low, or where specialist bulk cargo was handled...
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Camden and Morgan Counties to Miller County in the east. The reservoir is impounded at its northeastern end by Bagnell Dam, and the Osage River is both its...
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statewide regulations are all applicable. Lake Leon does provide a boat dock for those that wish to use their boats recreationally. The most populous...
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addition, the 51 crew members had not been paid in five months. The ship was impounded in Newfoundland and, in February 2012, was sold to Neptune International...
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sustained $3 million of damage on tipping in the Burrard Shipyard floating dry dock. In October 1995, the vessel lost power and slammed into pilings at...
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Conceived as four contiguous impounded docks with a floating entry basin at each end, the works began in 1884. The first dock was completed in 1888, and...
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Arizona respectively, feed into Lyman Lake Reservoir. An irrigation impoundment on the Little Colorado River, Lyman Reservoir consists of 1,400 acres...
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McDaniel Lake is considered a "restricted" lake meaning boating, floating, swimming and docks are not allowed on the water surface. Fishing, however is allowed...
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Twelve Quays (category Birkenhead docks)
the infilling of the Morpeth Dock entrance.[citation needed] Twelve Quays includes the former Wallasey Dock Impounding Station, and the Central Hydraulic...
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the fire or toxic fumes. On 28 May 1998 the ship's hull sank while impounded in a dock in Leghorn Harbour; it was later refloated and sent to be scrapped...
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Bristol Bridge is a bridge over the floating harbour in Bristol, England. The floating harbour was constructed on the original course of the River Avon...
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Bristol. The quayside was extended in 1724, and in 1809 the floating harbour was created by impounding the former river channel, meaning that boats could stay...
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programmes themselves include both docking and dockless systems, where docking systems allow users to rent a bike from a dock, i.e., a technology-enabled bicycle...
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is available at no charge to boaters. However, commercial traffic and floating logs have priority over leisure craft. Canada portal Water portal Renewable...
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or more blades and either mounted on a seabed fixed foundation or on a floating platform. In addition, vertical-axis turbines and tidal kites are also...
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existing route, and the impounding of around 70 acres (28 ha) of the original channel to create the largest impounded ship dock in the world at the time...
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boats have been added, including the schooner Katherine Ellen which was impounded in 1921 for running guns to the Irish Republican Army (IRA), the Kennet...
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