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2. Category:Marine salvage - Wikipedia

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   Marine salvage operations (1 C, 33 P) Pages in category "Marine salvage" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. ... Beach gear (ship salvage)

3. Beach gear (ship salvage) - Wikipedia

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   Beach gear (17 sets) in 1950 USS Missouri un-grounding configuration. 17 sets of heavy beach gear were utilized help un-ground the USS Missouri in 1950. A typical set included: Crown buoy and recovery wire [4] Two four-ton anchors; 15 fathoms of 2 1/4" chain; 250 fathoms of 1 5/8" wire rope; Set of four fold-blocks with 1200' of 5/8" wire rope

4. Wrecking (shipwreck) - Wikipedia

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   Wrecking is the practice of taking valuables from a shipwreck which has foundered or run aground close to shore. Often an unregulated activity of opportunity in coastal communities, wrecking has been subjected to increasing regulation and evolved into what is now known as marine salvage.

5. Point-class cutter - Wikipedia

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   Long Beach, California 67-95; Newport Beach, California 95-01 Transfer to El Salvador Point Steele ex-Point Buchon: WPB-82359 26 April 1967 9 July 1998 Rockaway, New York 67-70, Oswego, New York 70-80; Key West, Florida 80; Fort Myers Beach, Florida 82-98 Transfer to Antigua-Barbuda as Hermitage (P-03) 17 July 1998 Point Winslow: WPB-82360 3 ...

6. Merritt-Chapman & Scott - Wikipedia

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   Merritt-Chapman & Scott, nicknamed "The Black Horse of the Sea", was a noted marine salvage and construction firm of the United States, with worldwide operations. The chief predecessor company was founded in the 1860s by Israel Merritt, but a large number of other firms were merged in over the course of the company's history.

7. Marine salvage - Wikipedia

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   USS Regulus hard aground in 1971 due to a typhoon: after three weeks of effort, Naval salvors deemed it unsalvageable.. Marine salvage takes many forms, and may involve anything from refloating a ship that has gone aground or sunk as well as necessary work to prevent loss of the vessel, such as pumping water out of a ship—thereby keeping the ship afloat—extinguishing fires on board, to ...