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    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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  • 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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    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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    (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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    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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    [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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Eastland County and was created by the State Board of Water Engineers by impounding the Leon River. In reference to Abilene, Texas with a population of around...
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  • from Snug Cove and ran into a neighbouring marina, heavily damaging a floating dock in addition to 12 small pleasure boats, one of which sank. The crash...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Industrial History. Retrieved 28 August 2024. Richards, Paul (2021), Neath Floating Dock (parts 1 to 4), Neath Antiquarian Society. Retrieved 3 September 2024...
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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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  • Sess. 2. c. lxxxii) Brighthelmstone is now known as Brighton. East County Dock (Rotherhithe) Act 1811 (51 Geo. 3. c. clxxi) Aberdeen Courthouse, City and...
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