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The pilot of a boat observes that the relative bearing of another boat is less than 180° and decreasing (that is, it is now closer to dead ahead than before). He now knows he will pass astern of the other boat. If the bearing were to remain constant, the two boats would be on a collision course.
The first snagboat on the Sacramento River, Seizer (240 GRT, 1881), had retired in 1921 [3] and its replacement, Bear (242 GT, 1921), [4] was in need of support. Yuba was laid down on 19 November 1924 [ 5 ] at the Alameda , California shipyard of A. W. de Young Boat & Shipbuilding Company [ 2 ] who won the contract with a bid price of $78,346 ...
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Rand & Burger Shipyard Advertisement Three Burger Steamship Ferries 1890. The company grew and in an effort to leverage the building of larger steamships in 1872/3 Henry Burger Sr. took on a partner, Mr. Greeneleaf Rand, an established shipbuilder in Manitowoc, having been superintendent of the Manitowoc Dry Dock Company and partner at Hanson & Rand Shipyard, [4] forming Rand & Burger Shipyard ...
1. A towed or self-propelled flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river, canal or coastal transport of heavy goods. 2. Admiral ' s barge: A boat (or aircraft) at the disposal of an admiral (or other high ranking flag officer) for his or her use as transportation between a larger vessel and the shore, or within a harbor. In Royal Navy service ...
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The Katahdin is a historic steamboat berthed on Moosehead Lake in Greenville, Maine. Built in 1914 at the Bath Iron Works, it at first served the tourist trade on the lake before being converted to a towboat hauling lumber. It was fully restored in the 1990s by the nonprofit Moosehead Maritime Museum, and is again giving tours on the lake.
Her namesake was the Bear River, a tributary of the Mokelumne River. She was designed to replace the first snagboat on the Sacramento River, Seizer (240 GRT) operating since 1881. [ 2 ] In 1919, a contract was awarded to Schultz & Schultz of San Francisco who won with a bid of $117,000. [ 3 ]