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2. Electric boat - Wikipedia

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   An electric boat is a powered watercraft driven by electric motors, which are powered by either on-board battery packs, solar panels or generators. [ 1 ] While a significant majority of water vessels are powered by diesel engines , with sail power and gasoline engines also popular, boats powered by electricity have been used for over 120 years.

3. General Dynamics Electric Boat - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of submarines built at Electric Boat's Groton plant and does not include earlier submarines built by other companies under contract to Electric Boat. General Dynamics Electric Boat built every unique US Navy submarine after 1931, excepting Halibut (SSGN-587) and the purely experimental Albacore (AGSS-569) and Dolphin (AGSS-555) .

4. Electro-Dynamic Company - Wikipedia

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   An important early customer for electric boat motors was the Electric Launch Company, also known as Elco. Following an 1892 bankruptcy, financier Isaac Rice bailed out Electro-Dynamic and became a co-owner. Griscom died in a hunting accident in 1897.

5. Anchor windlass - Wikipedia

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   The combined port anchor windlass and winch of the modern ferry Stena Britannica. The hydraulically operated brake and pawl allows the anchor to be dropped from the ship's bridge. [citation needed] A windlass is a machine used on ships that is used to let-out and heave-up equipment such as a ship's anchor or a fishing trawl. On some ships, it ...

6. Oceanvolt - Wikipedia

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   Oceanvolt is a Finnish boat electric motor manufacturer founded in 2004 by Janne Kjellman. The company was formerly known as Electric Ocean. Oceanvolt is headquartered in Vantaa, Finland. The company currently produces two types of propulsion systems for electric boats: saildrives and shaftdrives.

7. Lynch motor - Wikipedia

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   Small-scale production in 1988 with the electric vehicle conversion firm London Innovation [3] and later with the Lynch Electric Motor Company (LEMCO). In 1989 four of them powered the boat An Stradag , driven by the Countess of Arran, to a world record speed for an electric boat of just over 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph). [ 4 ]