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  2. List of United States Coast Guard cutters - Wikipedia

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    The List of United States Coast Guard Cutters is a listing of all cutters to have been commissioned by the United States Coast Guard during the history of that service. It is sorted by length down to 65', the minimum length of a USCG cutter.

  3. USCG 65' Small harbor tug - Wikipedia

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    The USCG 65' small harbor tug is a class of fifteen tugs used by the United States Coast Guard for search and rescue, law enforcement, aids-to-navigation work and light icebreaking. The tugs are capable of breaking 18 in (0.46 m) of ice with propulsion ahead and 21 in (0.53 m) of ice backing and ramming. [ 2 ]

  4. Shackle - Wikipedia

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    Also known as a chain shackle, D-shackles are narrow shackles shaped like a loop of chain, usually with a pin or threaded pin closure. D-shackles are very common and most other shackle types are a variation of the D-shackle. The small loop can take high loads primarily in line. Side and racking loads may twist or bend a D-shackle.

  5. List of nautical units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Shackle: Length: Before 1949, 12.5 fathoms; later 15 fathoms. [2] Toise: Length: Toise was also used for measures of area and volume Twenty-foot equivalent unit or TEU: Volume: Used in connection with container ships and ports

  6. Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American ...

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    Nader counters by pointing out that, at the time, annual (and unnecessary) styling changes added, on average, about $700 to the consumer cost of a new car (equivalent to $7,000 in 2024). This compared to an average expenditure in safety by the automotive companies of about twenty-three cents per car (equivalent to $2.29 in 2024).

  7. Best Gas Grills of 2022, according to Consumer Reports - AOL

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    Nexgrill Deluxe 720-0896B (Home Depot) $449.00 at Home Depot. Nexgrill Deluxe 720-0896B (Home Depot) $652.55 at Walmart. Best Large Gas Grills Monument Grills 77352

  8. Block (sailing) - Wikipedia

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    Several different types of block connections as used on sailing ships, including the regular shackle, upset shackle, reverse shackle, reverse upset shackle, swivel jaw, swivel eye made round or oval, loose front hook, loose swivel hook,stiff swivel hook, loose side hook, stiff front hook, and side sister hook.

  9. Consumers' Checkbook - Wikipedia

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    Consumers' Checkbook/Center for the Study of Services (doing business as Consumers’ CHECKBOOK) is an independent, nonprofit consumer organization. It was founded in 1974 [1] in order to provide survey information to consumers about vendors and service providers. There are both print and online publications in the Boston, Chicago, Delaware ...