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2. 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 ...

3. Xerxes' pontoon bridges - Wikipedia

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   Construction of Xerxes Bridge of boats by Phoenician sailors Hellespont. Xerxes' pontoon bridges were constructed in 480 BC during the second Persian invasion of Greece (part of the Greco-Persian Wars) upon the order of Xerxes I of Persia for the purpose of Xerxes' army to traverse the Hellespont (the present-day Dardanelles) from Asia into Thrace, then also controlled by Persia (in the ...

4. Floating dock (jetty) - Wikipedia

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   A Braby pontoon constructed at Evans Bay in Wellington, New Zealand in 1951 consisted of 124 large square steel tanks connected together and ballasted with water and oil. [9] The pontoon was U-shaped, 110 feet (34 m) long and 74 feet (23 m) wide. Flying boats were winched tail-first into the U so that passengers could step onto the pontoon dock ...

5. Cumberland Pontoons - Wikipedia

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   Cumberland pontoons were folding pontoon bridges developed during the American Civil War to facilitate the movement of Union forces across the rivers of the Mid-South as the Federal forces advanced southward through Tennessee and Georgia. Early pontoon bridges during the Civil War were heavy and awkward, and required special long-geared pontoon ...

6. Logan Paul responds to claims he ‘pushed his dog off a boat’

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   Maira Butt. August 23, 2024 at 7:51 AM. WWE star and YouTuber Logan Paul has responded to claims that he pushed his adopted dog Broley off a boat. A resurfaced video from 2020 appeared to show the ...

7. Fairmile D motor torpedo boat - Wikipedia

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   The Fairmile D motor torpedo boat was a type of British motor torpedo boat (MTB) and motor gunboat (MGB), [1] conceived by entrepreneur Noel Macklin of Fairmile Marine and designed by naval architect Bill Holt for the Royal Navy. Nicknamed " Dog Boats ", they were designed to be assembled in kit form mass-produced by the Fairmile organisation ...