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2. Bayesian (yacht) - Wikipedia

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   Bayesian was a 56-metre (184 ft) sailing superyacht, built as Salute by Perini Navi at Viareggio, Italy, and delivered in 2008. [7] It had a 72-metre (237 ft) mast, one of the tallest in the world.

3. VB-10,000 (ship) - Wikipedia

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   VB-10,000. (ship) VB-10,000 prepares to place a decommissioned jacket as an artificial reef off the coast of Louisiana. The VB-10,000 is a heavy-lift twin- gantry catamaran consisting of two truss space frames atop two barges. The design was derived from Versabar's earlier VB-4000 (aka Bottom Feeder ), [ 1][ 2] which was developed to clear ...

4. Shiplift - Wikipedia

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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 ...

5. Liftboat - Wikipedia

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   The liftboat Kaitlyn Eymard was built in the US by Conrad Industries in 2002. A liftboat is a self-propelled, self-elevating vessel used in support of various offshore mineral exploration and production or offshore construction activities. A liftboat has a relatively large open deck to accommodate equipment and supplies, and the capability of ...

6. Heavy-lift ship - Wikipedia

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   A heavy-lift ship is a vessel designed to move very large loads that cannot be transported by normal ships. They are of two types: They are of two types: Semi-submersible ships that take on water ballast to allow the load—usually another vessel—to be floated over the deck, whereupon the ballast is jettisoned and the ship's deck and cargo ...

7. Boat lift - Wikipedia

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   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 inclined plane in ...