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A bucket is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone or square, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail. [1] [2] A bucket is usually an open-top container. In contrast, a pail can have a top or lid and is a shipping container. In non-technical usage, the two terms are ...
A dracone barge is a large flexible watertight tube intended to carry a liquid cargo while towed mostly-submerged behind a ship. One large example of the type has a capacity of 935 cubic metres (4.23 m diameter, 91 m long) while weighing only 6.5 tonnes empty.
Various boat toilets, including the most basic models on the bottom right. A simpler type of portable toilet may be used in travel trailers (caravans, camper vans) and on small boats. They are also referred to as "cassette toilet" or "camping toilet", or under brand names that have become generic trademarks.
Specialized shipping containers include: high cube containers (providing an extra 1 ft (305 mm) in height to standard shipping containers), pallet wides, open tops, side loaders, double door or tunnel-tainers, and temperature controlled containers. Another specialized container, known as Transtainer, is a portable fuel and oil freight container.
In July 2007, The Container Store sold a majority stake of the company to the private equity firm based in Los Angeles Leonard Green & Partners. [11] [12] [13] Following the deal, The Container Store announced plans to open 29 more stores in the next five years. [13] In 2013, the retailer was one of the hottest IPOs of 2013.
Followed Brunswick in advancing the design of what would become the Great Lakes boat Spokane: 1886 First steel-hulled lake freighter. Hennepin: 1888 Originally Str. George H. Dyer, it was the first ship retrofitted to have self-unloading equipment in 1902. Hennepin sank in a storm in 1927. [5] Wyandotte: 1908 First ship built as a self-unloader ...
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Watertight subdivision limits loss of buoyancy and freeboard in the event of damage, and may protect vital machinery from flooding. Most ships have some pumping capacity to remove accumulated water from the bilges, but a steel ship with no watertight subdivision will sink if water accumulates faster than pumps can remove it.