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2. Amphibious transport dock - Wikipedia

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   The interior configuration of the United States Navy's San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock shows features common to most LPDs. An amphibious transport dock, also called a landing platform dock (LPD), [1] is an amphibious warfare ship, a warship that embarks, transports, and lands elements of a landing force for expeditionary warfare missions. [2]

3. Maritime passenger terminal - Wikipedia

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   A passenger terminal is a structure in a port which services passengers boarding and leaving water vessels such as ferries, cruise ships and ocean liners.Depending on the types of vessels serviced by the terminal, it may be named (for example) ferry terminal, cruise terminal, marine terminal or maritime passenger terminal.

4. Gangway (nautical) - Wikipedia

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   A makeshift gangway provides a safe walkway for workers to board the back deck of the tugboat Samuel de Champlain while docked at a shipyard. The port and starboard gangways of the Duquesne can be seen at the right and left of the ship's boats.

5. Slipway - Wikipedia

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   A slipway, also known as boat ramp or launch or boat deployer, is a ramp on the shore by which ships or boats can be moved to and from the water. They are used for building and repairing ships and boats, and for launching and retrieving small boats on trailers towed by automobiles and flying boats on their undercarriage .

6. Expeditionary Transfer Dock - Wikipedia

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   An Expeditionary Transfer Dock (ESD), formerly the Mobile Landing Platform (MLP), is designed to be a semi-submersible, flexible, modular platform providing the US Navy with the capability to perform large-scale logistics movements such as the transfer of vehicles and equipment from sea to shore. These ships significantly reduce the dependency ...

7. 'Catastrophic failure' cited in gangway collapse that killed ...

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   Rabon said the aluminum gangway, which was installed at the Marsh Landing Dock on Sapelo Island in November 2021, gave way in the middle under the weight of people boarding the ferry to leave the ...