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  2. Glory of the Seas (clipper) - Wikipedia

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    Sears subsequently replaced Captain Chatfield with Josiah Nickerson Knowles who purchased an interest in the ship. Details of her time between 1870 and 1885 are incomplete, but she "ran between New York and British ports and San Francisco almost exclusively" during those years. [ 1 ]

  3. Harlan and Hollingsworth - Wikipedia

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    In 1842 the company hired Alexander Kelly to supervise all the millwright work. In 1843, under the encouragement of Samual Harlan, the company started engaging in marine engine building and repair. Their first ship-related project was repairing the cylinder and other machine parts of the steamboat Sun. This small step was the beginning of what ...

  4. Keel laying - Wikipedia

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    The event recognized as the keel laying is the first joining of modular components, or the lowering of the first module into place in the building dock. It is now often called "keel authentication" and is the ceremonial beginning of the ship's life, although some modules may have been started months before that stage of construction. [1] [2] [3]

  5. List of shipbuilders and shipyards - Wikipedia

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    New York Shipbuilding Corporation (New York Ship), Camden, New Jersey (1899–1967) Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia; North Florida Shipyards, Inc., Jacksonville, Florida; Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, Portland, Oregon, part of the Kaiser Shipyards; Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Pennellville Historic District

  6. Shipbuilding - Wikipedia

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    After the 11th century, a new type of ship called djong or jong was recorded in Java and Bali. [48] [49] This type of ship was built using wooden dowels and treenails, unlike the kunlun bo which used vegetal fibres for lashings. [50] The empire of Majapahit used jong, built in northern Java, for transporting troops overseas. [51]

  7. Builder's plate - Wikipedia

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    A builder's plate is usually a metal plate that is attached to railway locomotives and rolling stock, bogies, construction equipment, trucks, automobiles, ...

  8. John Laird (shipbuilder) - Wikipedia

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    Laird realised that the techniques of bending iron plates and riveting them together to build ships were similar to the principles involved in making boilers. Laird's first vessel Wye was a 60 ft pre-fabricated iron lighter in 1829 – displacement sixty tons – which was used on canals and lakes in Ireland.

  9. USCGC Spar (WLB-206) - Wikipedia

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    The ship was dispatched to the disabled fishing vessel Lady Gudny in January 2017. Spar was able to secure a tow line on the fishing boat, but it broke in the heavy seas and high winds. The broken tow line wrapped around Spar's propeller, disabling the ship. She was towed back to Kodiak by a commercial tugboat. [14]