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Shiplift. A shiplift is a modern alternative for a slipway, a floating dry dock or a graving dry dock. A shiplift is used to dry dock and launch ships. It consists of a structural platform that is lifted and lowered exactly vertically, synchronously by a number of hoists. First, the platform is lowered underwater, then the ship is floated above ...
Boat lift. A boat lift, ship lift, or lift lock is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations, and is an alternative to the canal lock. It may be vertically moving, like the Anderton boat lift in England, rotational, like the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland, or operate on an inclined plane, like the Ronquières ...
Shiplift. The Syncrolift shiplift is a piece of equipment for lifting boats, ships and vessels onto land and back at sea for maintenance work or repair. The vessel is maneuvered over a submerged cradle, which is then lifted by a set of synchronized hoists or winches. The vessel can be worked upon in place, or it can be moved inland.
A timelapse from inside a boat. The Falkirk Wheel (Scottish Gaelic: Cuibhle na h-Eaglaise Brice) is a rotating boat lift in Tamfourhill, Falkirk, in central Scotland, connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. It opened in 2002 as part of the Millennium Link project, reconnecting the two canals for the first time since the 1930s.
The boat lifts of the Grand Western Canal. Hay Inclined Plane. Hobbacott Incline on the Bude Canal. Kelpie boatlift, part of the Falkirk Helix project. The Inclined Plane of the Ketley Canal. Marhamchurch Incline on the Bude Canal. Merrifield Incline on the Bude Canal. Ridd Inclined Plane on the Rolle Canal.
Architect (s) Civil design by RT James and Partners, London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Main contractor. Alfred McAlpine. Devonshire Dock Hall (often abbreviated to DDH) is a large indoor shipbuilding and assembly complex that forms part of the BAE Systems shipyard in the Barrow Island area of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England.
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Known for. Inventor of the Syncrolift system. Spouse. Marge Pearlson. Children. 5. Awards. Elmer A. Sperry Award (2002) Raymond Pearlson (born 2 March 1926) is an American marine engineer and the inventor of the Syncrolift System, which was designed to both launch ships and lift them out of the water for repair. [1][2]