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The reaction ferry uses the power of the river to tack across the current; the powered cable ferry uses engines or electric motors (e.g., the Canby Ferry in the U.S. State of Oregon) to wind itself across; or is hand-operated, such as the Stratford-upon-Avon chain ferry in the UK and the Saugatuck Chain Ferry in Saugatuck, Michigan, United States.
HD-4 or Hydrodome number 4 was an early research hydrofoil watercraft developed by the scientist Alexander Graham Bell. It was designed and built at the Bell Boatyard on Bell's Beinn Bhreagh estate near Baddeck, Nova Scotia .
The ships are powered by four 8-cylinder MaK 8M32C diesel engines driving two 11 MW (15,000 hp) electric motors turning two controllable pitch propellers. [6] [10] The engines are split into two main compartments and each compartment can run independently. [10] The engines are rated at 21,444 horsepower (15,991 kW).
The engine was built in 1890 by the Fulton Iron Works in San Francisco. Eureka is one of only two surviving vessels equipped with a walking beam engine, alongside the Ticonderoga, and the only one still afloat. With the increased length of 5 feet (1.5 m), [clarification needed] Eureka became the largest wooden passenger ferry ever built. She ...
The Jumbo Mark II-class ferries are a series of ferries built for Washington State Ferries (WSF) between 1997 and 1999, at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle.Each ferry can carry up to 2,500 passengers and 202 vehicles, making them the largest ferries in the fleet, and the second longest double-ended ferries in the world. [1]
C-G ferry City of Aberdeen: 126726 stern psgr 1891 Aberdeen: 127 38.7 245 138 1907 R [R 22] City of Angeles: 203193 prop ferry 1906 California 125 38.1 1938 D City of Bothell: 127063 prop tug 1894 Seattle 64 19.5 212 111 1920 A City of Bremerton [R 23] 93135 prop ferry 1901 Everett 167 50.9 1945 D City of Denver: 127233 stern psgr 1898 Seattle ...
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VDOT provides free car ferry services in Southern Virginia, including the Jamestown Ferry; Washington State Ferries (northwest US) White's Ferry, a cable ferry between Maryland and Virginia; Woodland Ferry, cable ferry located in western Sussex County, Delaware, spanning the Nanticoke River at Woodland, Delaware, west of the city of Seaford