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2. Marine evacuation system - Wikipedia

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   Marine evacuation system. A marine evacuation system (MES) is a lifesaving device found on many modern passenger ships or oil rigs consisting of an inflatable slide or escape chute where a passenger can evacuate straight into waiting life rafts. Developed in 1979 by RFD, a New Zealand–based company that distributes safety equipment; MES is ...

3. Special Operations Craft – Riverine - Wikipedia

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   Ballistic protection (up to .7.62mm x 39mm ball) for the engines, helmsman and gunners. Special Operations Craft – Riverine is a boat used by the United States Navy to perform short-range insertion and extraction of special operations forces in river and near-shore environments. It replaced the Patrol Boat, River, and the mini armored troop ...

4. Mark V Special Operations Craft - Wikipedia

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   Final design includes a new 115' by 37' U-shaped, reinforced concrete pier, 60' long concrete floating docks to berth five vessels, and a gangway. The pier was designed to support the combined load of a 50-ton Mark V and a 70-ton marine travel lift used to lift the vessels out of the water and transport them to the maintenance facility. [12]

5. Swiftships Model 35PB1208 E-1455 - Wikipedia

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   Swiftships Model 35PB1208 E-1455. The Model 35PB1208 E-1455 patrol boat was ordered by the Iraqi Navy from Swiftships Shipbuilders in September 2009. [2] The first was accepted into service in October 2010. Five others have since been delivered, the sixth in September 2011. The total order is for 12, with an option for a three more vessels.

6. Rigid inflatable boat - Wikipedia

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   RNLI inshore rescue boat during Falmouth Lifeboat Day, August 2006. A rigid inflatable boat (RIB), also rigid-hull inflatable boat or rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB), is a lightweight but high-performance and high-capacity boat constructed with a rigid hull bottom joined to side-forming air tubes that are inflated with air to a high pressure so as to give the sides resilient rigidity along ...

7. Topsides - Wikipedia

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   Topsides. The topsides on a boat, ship, watercraft, or floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, is that part of the hull between the waterline and the deck. [1] It includes the visible parts of the bow, stern, sheer, and, if present, tumblehome. On an offshore oil platform, topsides refers to the upper half of the structure ...

8. MV Brigitte Bardot - Wikipedia

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   12 to 16. Merida (formerly MV Brigitte Bardot, MV Gojira, Rat Race Media Adventurer, Ocean 7 Adventurer and Cable and Wireless Adventurer) is a high-tech 35 m (115 ft) stabilized monohull twin diesel engine powered vessel designed by Nigel Irens. Construction of the vessel began in June 1997 and she was launched on 16 March 1998.

9. Landing Craft Air Cushion - Wikipedia

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   40+ knots (46+ mph; 74 km/h) with full load, 70+ knots maximum speed. The Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) is a class of air-cushioned landing craft (hovercraft) used by the United States Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). They transport weapons systems, equipment, cargo and personnel from ship to shore and across the beach.