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2. Pilot ladder - Wikipedia

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   A United States Navy petty officer uses the pilot ladder of an Iranian cargo ship during a maritime interdiction operation in the Persian Gulf. A pilot ladder is a highly specialized form of rope ladder, typically used on board cargo vessels [1] for the purposes of embarking and disembarking pilots. The design and construction of the ladders is ...

3. Jacob's ladder (nautical) - Wikipedia

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   This is the Jacob's ladder. While they were a popular way of boarding a vessel or carrying out shipside maintenance during the era of wooden ships, and even as recently as the 1950s, their use today on board modern merchant ships is minimal due to obvious safety issues. Today, Jacob's ladders are used only to board lifeboats and liferafts and ...

4. Accommodation ladder - Wikipedia

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   An accommodation ladder is a foldable flight of steps down a ship 's side. Accommodation ladders can be mounted parallel or perpendicular to the ship's board. If the ladder is parallel to the ship, it has to have an upper platform. Upper platforms are mostly turnable. The lower platform (or the ladder itself) hangs on a bail and can be lifted ...

5. Ratlines - Wikipedia

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   Ratlines (/ ˈ r æ t l ɪ n z /) are lengths of thin line tied between the shrouds of a sailing ship to form a ladder. [1] Found on all square-rigged ships, whose crews must go aloft to stow the square sails, they also appear on larger fore-and-aft rigged vessels to aid in repairs aloft or conduct a lookout from above.

6. Category:Sailing ship components - Wikipedia

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7. Topsides - Wikipedia

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   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, above the ...