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  2. Tubbs Cordage Company Office Building - Wikipedia

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    The Tubbs Cordage Company Office is of local historical significance in the category of industry due to its association with the Tubbs Cordage Company and its rope factory founded in San Francisco by Alfred L. Tubbs and his brother Hiram where the first commercial manufacture of rope on the Pacific Coast was accomplished.

  3. Rat Guard - Wikipedia

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    Ships and Ports: Rat guards are installed on mooring lines to prevent rats from climbing aboard vessels when docked. This helps protect cargo, reduce the risk of disease, and prevent damage to the ship's infrastructure. Docks and Harbors: Ports often have large rat populations due to abundant food and shelter. Rat guards are placed on mooring ...

  4. Mooring - Wikipedia

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    A ship is secured to a mooring to forestall free movement of the ship on the water. An anchor mooring fixes a vessel's position relative to a point on the bottom of a waterway without connecting the vessel to shore. As a verb, mooring refers to the act of attaching a vessel to a mooring. [1]

  5. Bitts - Wikipedia

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    Bitts are paired vertical wooden or metal posts mounted either aboard a ship or on a wharf, pier, or quay. The posts are used to secure mooring lines, ropes, hawsers, or cables. [1] Bitts aboard wooden sailing ships (sometime called cable-bitts) were large vertical timbers mortised into the keel and used as the anchor cable attachment point. [2]

  6. Pneumatic line thrower - Wikipedia

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    The basic applications of pneumatic line throwers are ship-to-ship line deployment [1] for replenishment at sea or towing, ship-to-shore line deployment for mooring or transfers, water rescue, industrial cable installation such as catenaries, and tactical line deployment such as climbing and military applications.

  7. Mooring mast - Wikipedia

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    A mooring mast, or mooring tower, is a structure designed to allow for the docking of an airship outside of an airship hangar or similar structure. More specifically, a mooring mast is a mast or tower that contains a fitting on its top that allows for the bow of the airship to attach its mooring line to the structure. [1]

  8. Messenger line - Wikipedia

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    A heaving line thrown from a ship to shore then used to pull the mooring warp from the ship to a bollard. [1] A light line installed inside a mast during manufacture, which is later used to reeve a halyard or pull an electrical cable into place. [2] A line used to lower a toolbag or equipment along a downline to a diver. [3]

  9. Nautical cable - Wikipedia

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    The three ropes are so tightly wound counter to the weave of the constituent ropes that the fibers are compressed and the individual weaves stressed, sealing out the water and resulting in a length of about 180 metres (100 fathoms), the UK traditional definition of cable length. Using a cable, the raising of the anchor, or any activity ...

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