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2. Strépy-Thieu boat lift - Wikipedia

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   The Strépy-Thieu boat lift (French: L'ascenseur funiculaire de Strépy-Thieu) lies on a branch of the Canal du Centre in the municipality of Le Rœulx, Hainaut, Belgium. With a height difference of 73.15 metres (240.0 ft) between the upstream and downstream reaches, it was the tallest boat lift in the world upon its completion, and remained so ...

3. Boat lift - Wikipedia

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   A boat lift, ship lift, or lift lock is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations, and is an alternative to the canal lock. It may be vertically moving, like the Anderton boat lift in England , rotational, like the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland , or operate on an inclined plane , like the Ronquières inclined plane ...

4. Liftboat - Wikipedia

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   The boat was declared a total loss at an estimated cost of $1.14 million. The Ram XVIII was a 215-foot liftboat, built in 2015 and owned by Aries Marine Corporation in Lafayette, Louisiana . The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the probable cause of the accident was an industry failure of not providing liftboat ...

5. Travel lift - Wikipedia

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   A small motor-boat lifted from the water by a travel lift at La Rochelle, France, 2016. A travel lift or travelift (also called a boat hoist, boat gantry crane, or boat crane) is a specialised type of crane used for lifting boats out of the water and transporting them around docks or marinas. [1] These cranes allow boats with masts or tall ...

6. Niederfinow Boat Lift - Wikipedia

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   By 26 January 1939 100,000 boats had already passed through the lift. In the inaugural year there was 2,832,000 tonnes of traffic. The lift was the subject of a general overhaul in 1980 and the lifting cables were renewed in 1984/85. Today the boat lift is too short for some barge trains which must be separated to pass the lift.

7. Portable boat lift - Wikipedia

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   A portable boat lift is a tool designed specifically to allow one person to transport, set up, and safely separate boats from boat trailers. Portable boat lifts are intended to be used on land, rather than near, in, or on the water. Sometimes referred to as a boat hoist, this equipment holds the waterfcraft out of the water so that maintenance ...