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2. Falkirk Wheel - Wikipedia

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3. Fender (boating) - Wikipedia

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   In boating, a fender is an air-filled ball or a device in other shape and material used to absorb the kinetic energy of a boat or vessel berthing against a jetty, quay wall or other vessel. [1] Fenders, used on all types of vessels, from cargo ships to cruise ships, ferries and personal yachts, prevent damage to vessels and berthing structures ...

4. Caisson (lock gate) - Wikipedia

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   A caisson is a form of lock gate. It consists of a large floating iron or steel box. This can be flooded to seat the caisson in the opening of the dock to close it, or pumped dry to float it and allow it to be towed clear of the dock. Graving docks at Birkenhead, closed by a variety of ship caissons and floating (sliding) caissons.

5. Sheerness Dockyard - Wikipedia

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   Sheerness Dockyard. View from Garrison Point Fort across the Gun Wharf and Boat Pond, Sheerness Dockyard, 1941. The Navy Board (until 1832); the Admiralty (after 1832). Sheerness Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the Sheerness peninsula, at the mouth of the River Medway in Kent. It was opened in the 1660s and closed in 1960.

6. Louis Joubert Lock - Wikipedia

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   The Louis Joubert Lock ( French: Forme Ecluse Louis Joubert ), also known as the Normandie Dock – after the large ocean liner that provided the impetus for the facility to be built, is a lock and major dry dock located in the port of Saint-Nazaire in Loire-Atlantique, northwestern France . Owned by the Port authority of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire ...

7. Loading dock - Wikipedia

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   Loading dock. A loading dock or loading bay is an area of a building where goods vehicles (usually road or rail) are loaded and unloaded. They are commonly found on commercial and industrial buildings, and warehouses in particular. Loading docks may be exterior, flush with the building envelope, or fully enclosed.