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2. SS Oceanic (1963) - Wikipedia

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   SS Oceanic was a cruise ship built in 1963 by Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico, Monfalcone, Italy for Home Lines.Between 1985 and 2000, she sailed for Premier Cruise Line under the names Starship Oceanic and Big Red Boat I, before being sold to Pullmantur Cruises and reverting to her original name.

3. Off-by-one error - Wikipedia

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   Off-by-one errors are common in using the C library because it is not consistent with respect to whether one needs to subtract 1 byte – functions like fgets() and strncpy will never write past the length given them (fgets() subtracts 1 itself, and only retrieves (length − 1) bytes), whereas others, like strncat will write past the length given them.

4. Capsizing - Wikipedia

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   The boat is then righted, bailed out, and the sails reset, so that in the event of an uncontrolled capsize, the boat and its occupants are familiar with the procedure and may recover. Most small monohull sailboats can normally be righted by standing or pulling down on the centreboard , daggerboard (or bilgeboard in a scow ) to lift the mast ...

5. Lock (water navigation) - Wikipedia

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   In this underwater lift, the chamber was 80 ft (24.4 m) long and 60 ft (18.3 m) deep and contained a completely enclosed wooden box big enough to take a barge. This box moved up and down in the 60 ft (18.3 m) deep pool of water. Apart from inevitable leakage, the water never left the chamber, and using the lock wasted no water.

6. List of shipwrecks in 1966 - Wikipedia

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   The 163-year-old Thames barge sank at Chiswick. [63] Koula F Greece: The wreck of Koula F, known locally as the "Greek Ship," on 3 December 2008. The cargo ship ran aground in the Persian Gulf at Kish Island, Iran. She was declared a total loss. [64] Taiwind Panama: The Liberty ship collided with St. Matthew (flag unknown) off Irosaki, Japan.

7. German submarine U-163 (1941) - Wikipedia

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   U-163 had a displacement of 1,120 tonnes (1,100 long tons) when at the surface and 1,232 tonnes (1,213 long tons) while submerged. [2] The U-boat had a total length of 76.76 m (251 ft 10 in), a pressure hull length of 58.75 m (192 ft 9 in), a beam of 6.76 m (22 ft 2 in), a height of 9.60 m (31 ft 6 in), and a draught of 4.70 m (15 ft 5 in).