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2. Caisson (lock gate) - Wikipedia

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   These gates can be opened and closed quickly, so they are used for canal locks, to change levels, and also for most freight docks. As the function of a freight dock is to enclose deep water, such gates point inwards. A graving or dry dock, in contrast, excludes water, and so their gates point outwards.

3. List of dry docks - Wikipedia

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   Dry Dock № 1 194.74 33.0 9.19 * Norfolk Naval Yard: United States of America: Norfolk, Virginia Dry Dock № 8 333.0 46.0 14.6 * [105] Dry Dock № 4 308.0 44.0 13.5 * Dry Dock № 3 221.0 37.0 10.5 * Dry Dock № 2 151.3 32.06 11.4 * Dry Dock № 1 99.2 26.3 7.8 * General Dynamics Electric Boat: United States of America: Groton, Connecticut

4. Dry dock - Wikipedia

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   The Alfredo da Silva Dry Dock in Almada, Portugal, was closed in 2000. The largest roofed dry dock is at the German Meyer Werft Shipyard in Papenburg, Germany, it is 504 m long, 125 m wide and stands 75 m tall. [14] Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is the site of a large dry dock 556 by 93 metres (1,824 ft × 305 ...

5. Category:Drydocks - Wikipedia

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6. Lockrod - Wikipedia

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   Patented originally in 1912, the lockrod was first used to secure railroad boxcar doors. Today, sometimes confused with locking bars or bar locks, lockrods have evolved to secure virtually every trailer or container that has a swing door (a door that swings open and closed rather than rolls up).

7. Lock and Dam No. 19 - Wikipedia

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   There was a 130 feet (40 m) wide, 463 feet (141 m) long and 20 feet (6 m) deep dry dock at the site, both the dry dock and 1913 lock were dewatered in 1977 when a sheet pile and cell closure were built blocking the upstream sides of the lock and dry dock. [2]

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9. Ipswich Docks - Wikipedia

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   The Ipswich Docks Act 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. ccxvi) allowed for the construction of a new lock in their present position to facilitate access to the dock and allow trams to operate along the length of the 'Island' between New Cut and the dock. [8] The new lock gates were constructed by the time of the 1898 act which authorised the construction ...