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  2. Anderton Boat Lift - Wikipedia

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    Anderton Boat Lift. The Anderton Boat Lift is a two- caisson lift lock near the village of Anderton, Cheshire, in North West England. It provides a 50-foot (15.2 m) vertical link between two navigable waterways: the River Weaver and the Trent and Mersey Canal. The structure is designated as a scheduled monument, and is included in the National ...

  3. Falkirk Wheel - Wikipedia

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    A timelapse from inside a boat. The Falkirk Wheel (Scottish Gaelic: Cuibhle na h-Eaglaise Brice) is a rotating boat lift in Tamfourhill, Falkirk, in central Scotland, connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. It opened in 2002 as part of the Millennium Link project, reconnecting the two canals for the first time since the 1930s.

  4. Panama Canal locks - Wikipedia

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    The Panama Canal locks (Spanish: Esclusas del Canal de Panamá) are a lock system that lifts ships up 85 feet (26 metres) to the main elevation of the Panama Canal and down again. The original canal had a total of six steps (three up, three down) for a ship's passage. The total length of the lock structures, including the approach walls, is ...

  5. Strépy-Thieu boat lift - Wikipedia

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    The boat lift was designed during the Canal du Centre's modernisation program in order to replace a system of two locks and four 16-metre (52 ft) lifts dating from 1888 to 1919. [1] The canal itself began operations in 1879 and its locks and lifts were able to accommodate vessels of up to 300 tonnes.

  6. Liftboat - Wikipedia

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    The liftboat Kaitlyn Eymard was built in the US by Conrad Industries in 2002. A liftboat is a self-propelled, self-elevating vessel used in support of various offshore mineral exploration and production or offshore construction activities. A liftboat has a relatively large open deck to accommodate equipment and supplies, and the capability of ...

  7. Caisson lock - Wikipedia

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    The caisson lock is a type of canal lock in which a narrowboat is floated into a sealed watertight box and raised or lowered between two different canal water levels. It was invented in the late 18th century as a solution to the problem posed by the excessive demand for water when conventional locks were used to raise and lower canal boats ...

  8. VB-10,000 (ship) - Wikipedia

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    The VB-10,000 is a heavy-lift twin- gantry catamaran consisting of two truss space frames atop two barges. The design was derived from Versabar's earlier VB-4000 (aka Bottom Feeder), [1][2] which was developed to clear debris from toppled oil drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Instead of sending divers to section the wreckage into pieces ...

  9. HMCS Porte St. Louis - Wikipedia

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    Porte St. Louis was built by George T. Davie & Sons, Lauzon, being laid down on 21 March 1951 and launched on 23 July 1952. She was commissioned on 29 August 1952 and like her sister ships, took the name of one of the gates in the fortifications of Quebec or Louisbourg. Though the class were designed to operate the gates in anti-submarine booms ...

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