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2. 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 ...

3. Punt (boat) - Wikipedia

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   A traditional river punt is a wooden boat with no keel, stem, or sternpost, and is constructed like a ladder. The main structure consists of two side-panels connected by a series of cross-planks called "treads", which are 4 inches (10 cm) wide and spaced about 1 foot (30 cm) apart.

4. 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.

5. 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 ...

6. Pike pole - Wikipedia

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   Pike pole. The head of a pike pole with various implements for pulling items. The head of a short firefighter's pike pole. A pike pole is a long metal-topped wooden, aluminium or fiberglass pole used for reaching, hooking and/or pulling on another object. They are variously used in boating, construction, logging, rescue and recovery, power line ...

7. Pilot ladder - Wikipedia

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   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 tightly specified [2] by international regulation under the SOLAS regime. Pilot ladders and other boarding arrangements must be carefully ...