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  2. Davit - Wikipedia

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    A davit (/ ˈ d eɪ v ɪ t /) [1] is any of various crane-like devices used on a ship for supporting, raising, and lowering equipment such as boats and anchors. [2] Davit systems are most often used to lower an emergency lifeboat to the embarkation level to be boarded. The lifeboat davit has falls (now made of wire, historically of manila rope ...

  3. Axel Welin - Wikipedia

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    However, his main interest was davits. He invented a new and improved davit for lowering boats on board ship, a quadrant davit for double-banked boats which simply became known as the Welin davit . The RMS Titanic was equipped with Welin davits, [ 1 ] and after the disaster the demand for his product skyrocketed.

  4. List of boat lifts - Wikipedia

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    Geheyan dam boat lift, also in Hubei Province, capable of lifting vessels of 300 tons displacement. The dam was completed in 1994, but technical difficulties delayed the opening of the ship lift for four more years. Longtan dam boat lift, capacity to lift vessels of 250 tons, in a basin 40×10.8×1.8 meters, and a vertical lift of 68.5 meters. [2]

  5. Shiplift - Wikipedia

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    Whereas "shiplift" is the word that is normally used, the term used by Lloyd's register is "Mechanical Lift Dock". There are two different kinds of platform design, the articulated and the rigid. [1] The articulated platform has hinged connections between the main and the longitudinal beams. A rigid platform, the beams are bolted or welded ...

  6. Travel lift - Wikipedia

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    A small motor-boat lifted from the water by a travel lift at La Rochelle, France, 2016. A travel lift or travelift (also called a boat hoist, boat gantry crane, or boat crane) is a specialised type of crane used for lifting boats out of the water and transporting them around docks or marinas. [1]

  7. Boat lift - Wikipedia

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    A boat lift, ship lift, or lift lock is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations, and is an alternative to the canal lock. It may be vertically moving, like the Anderton boat lift in England , rotational, like the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland , or operate on an inclined plane , like the Ronquières inclined plane ...

  8. Ship's boat - Wikipedia

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    A merchant ship usually carried on board: (1) the launch or long-boat; (2) the skiff, the next in size and used for towing or kedging; (3) the jolly boat or yawl, the third in size (4) the quarter-boat, which was longer than the jolly-boat and named thus because it was hung on davits at a ship's quarter; (5) the captain’s gig, which was one ...

  9. Liftboat - Wikipedia

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    The boat was declared a total loss at an estimated cost of $1.14 million. The Ram XVIII was a 215-foot liftboat, built in 2015 and owned by Aries Marine Corporation in Lafayette, Louisiana . The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the probable cause of the accident was an industry failure of not providing liftboat ...

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