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2. Caisson (lock gate) - Wikipedia

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   This is a permanent fixture within the dock, like a hinged dock gate, and moves upon a fixed track. The sides of the caisson are vertical, making a narrow rectangular box. Water ballast is used to control its buoyancy, as for the ship caisson, but the floating caisson is then hauled sideways into a recess built into the side of the dock wall.

3. Floating dock (jetty) - Wikipedia

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   A floating dock, floating pier or floating jetty is a platform or ramp supported by pontoons. It is usually joined to the shore with a gangway. It is usually joined to the shore with a gangway. The pier is usually held in place by vertical poles referred to as pilings, which are embedded in the seafloor or by anchored cables . [ 1 ]

4. Floating dock - Wikipedia

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   Floating dock (impounded), a development of the half tide dock, where pumps or river flow are used to maintain the dock at around the high tide level of a nearby tidal waterway Floating dock (jetty) , a lightweight quay or jetty, floating on pontoons, that rises and falls with the tide and shipping

5. List of dry docks - Wikipedia

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   Floating dock № 152 225 36.6 * * [99] Floating dock № 154 225 36.6 * * Floating dock № 5 ZH-B 90.9 23.5 * * Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries: United Kingdom: Belfast: Building Dock 556 93.0 8.4 * * [100] Belfast Dry Dock 335 50.3 12.2 * Able UK: United Kingdom: Teesside 376 233 12.15

6. No.5 Royal Dock - Wikipedia

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   The No.5 Royal Dock is a floating dry dock being built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME); when complete, it will be the largest floating drydock in the world. [ 1 ] Specification

7. Dock - Wikipedia

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   The dock was merely a haven surrounded by trees, with no unloading facilities. The world's first commercial enclosed wet dock, with quays and unloading warehouses, was the Old Dock at Liverpool, built in 1715 and held up to 100 ships. The dock reduced ship waiting giving quick turnarounds, greatly improving the throughput of cargo.