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2. MV Indiana Harbor - Wikipedia

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   MV Indiana Harbor is a very large diesel-powered lake freighter owned and operated by the American Steamship Company. This vessel was built in 1979 at Bay Shipbuilding Company , Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin and included self-unloading technology.

3. MV Burns Harbor - Wikipedia

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   M/V Burns Harbor is a very large diesel-powered Lake freighter owned and operated by the American Steamship Company. This vessel was built in 1980 at Bay Shipbuilding Company , Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin and included self-unloading technology.

4. Enterprise Engine and Foundry Co. - Wikipedia

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   During World War II, Enterprise built hundreds of diesel engines for the United States Navy and Maritime Commission for tugs, harbor craft, small vessels, and auxiliary electric generators on larger ships. In addition, many Enterprise engines were sold to drive electric power generators in cities and towns across America.

5. List of World War II vessel types of the United States

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   FM 55-130 Small Boats and Harbor Craft [24] Harbor Vessels. The Harbor Craft Company is organized for the purpose of ferrying to shore cargo from freighters and transports arriving in theaters of operation. The vessels may either be riding offshore at anchor in the open sea or more likely, anchored in a harbor.

6. Hydraulic ram - Wikipedia

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   A hydraulic ram pump, ram pump, or hydram is a cyclic water pump powered by hydropower. It takes in water at one "hydraulic head" (pressure) and flow rate, and outputs water at a higher hydraulic head and lower flow rate. The device uses the water hammer effect to develop pressure that allows a portion of the input water that powers the pump to ...

7. Maritime hydraulics in antiquity - Wikipedia

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   The bilge pump was an improvement on the first hydraulic pumps used in antiquity: force pumps. Invented around the early 3rd century BCE, the most primitive design of a force pump consisted of a piston pushing water out of a tube, constructed by soldering individual bronze elements (Stein 246).