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2. Category:Boat lifts - Wikipedia

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   Strépy-Thieu boat lift; Swift Rapids Marine Railway; T. Tub boat lift This page was last edited on 26 March 2013, at 10:04 (UTC). Text is available under the ...

3. 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]

4. 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 ...

5. Abraham Lincoln's patent - Wikipedia

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   Abraham Lincoln's patent relates to an invention to buoy and lift boats over shoals and obstructions in a river. Abraham Lincoln conceived the invention when on two occasions the boat on which he traveled got hung up on obstructions. Lincoln's device was composed of large bellows attached to the sides of a boat that were expandable due to air ...

6. Abram S. Hewitt (fireboat) - Wikipedia

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   The Abram S. Hewitt was a coal-powered fireboat operated by the Fire Department of New York City from 1903 to 1958. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She was the department's last coal-powered vessel and had a pumping capacity of 7,000 gallons per minute.

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 ...