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2. 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]

3. List of equipment of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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   6x6 tactical truck Used by Navy Seabees: HMMWV: Light utility vehicle: Used primarily by Expeditionary Forces. To be replaced by M-ATV and JLTV. Oshkosh M-ATV: MRAP, LUV: To replace HMMWV, used by Navy Special Warfare and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams. Oshkosh JLTV: light multi-role vehicle/light tactical vehicle and MRAP

4. Alvis Stalwart - Wikipedia

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   The Stalwart, formally classified by the British Army as Truck, High Mobility Load Carrier (HMLC), 5 Ton, 6 x 6, Alvis Stalwart and informally known by servicemen as the Stolly, and by former RCT as the Stally, [1] is a highly mobile amphibious military truck.

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6. Capstan (nautical) - Wikipedia

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   Two barrels on a common axle were used frequently to allow men on two decks to apply force to the bars. Later capstans were made entirely of iron, with gearing in the head providing a mechanical advantage when the bars were pushed counterclockwise. One form of capstan was connected by a shaft and gears to an anchor windlass on the deck below.

7. Screw piles - Wikipedia

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   Helical anchors consist of an extendable steel shaft with helical bearing plates. Piles or piers refer to strong base elements that withstand or transfer vertical/horizontal loads. Anchors are piles utilised only in tension applications like restraining wall tiebacks or vertical ground anchors made to resist overturning forces.