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2. Foxton Inclined Plane Trust - Wikipedia

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   The Foxton Inclined Plane Trust is a waterway society and a registered charity on the Grand Union Canal in Foxton, Leicestershire, England, UK. It was founded in 1980 to promote the restoration of the Victorian boat lift or inclined plane, a unique and famous piece of canal history. The Trust runs the Foxton Canal Museum which was opened in ...

3. Upholder/Victoria-class submarine - Wikipedia

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   Canada announced plans for a major life extension for the class on 7 April 2015, possibly to start in 2020. The estimated cost for the program would be between $1.5 and $2 billion CAN. [35] HMCS Chicoutimi being assisted by a tugboat after its arrival at United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka, October 2017

4. Goupitan shiplift - Wikipedia

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   The Goupitan shiplift ( simplified Chinese: 构皮滩升船机; traditional Chinese: 構皮灘升船機; pinyin: Gòupítān Shēngchuánjī) is a boat lifting system on the Wu River, a tributary of the Yangtze River in Guizhou Province, southwest of China. A system of three boat lifts supplements the Goupitan Dam in order to provide shipping ...

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

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   Beam. 314 feet (96 m) Draught. 20 feet (6 m) Propulsion. (8) 1,000 HP azimuthing thrusters (4/barge) 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 ...

6. USCGC Acushnet (WMEC-167) - Wikipedia

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   From May 17 to June 6, 1980, Acushnet participated in the largest immigration crisis in the history of the Coast Guard, the Mariel Boat Lift from Cuba. The cutter escorted the vessel Red Diamond with 800 refugees into Key West. In addition, she assisted 35 boats, aided 120 refugees directly, and fueled two 41-foot Coast Guard boats.

7. 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.