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2. Aids to Navigation Boat - Wikipedia

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   55-ft Aids to Navigation Boat (ANB) Equipped with a crane that is used for hoisting and securing the various buoys and aids to navigation that the Coast Guard supplies for waterways. The boat is 55 ft long to the transom, and 58 ft 9 in to the end of the swim platform. It is 25 ft tall unfixed and has a navigational draft of 8 ft.

3. Transom (nautical) - Wikipedia

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   Vertical transom and stern of a modern cargo ship. In some boats and ships, a transom is the aft transverse surface of the hull that forms the stern of a vessel. Historically, they are a development from the canoe stern (or "double-ender") wherein which both bow and stern are pointed. Transoms add both strength and width to the stern.

4. List of equipment of the United States Coast Guard - Wikipedia

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   47-ft Motor Life Boat: 47' The Coast Guard's 47-foot primary heavy-weather boat used for search and rescue as well as law enforcement and homeland security. [14] Response Boat Medium: 45' The Coast Guard has signed a multi-year contract for 180 Response Boat – Medium (RB-M) boats that were delivered starting in 2008 to replace the 41′ UTB ...

5. Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z) - Wikipedia

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   1. (ship's boat) A small, light boat propelled by oars or a sail, used as a tender to larger vessels during the Age of Sail. 2. (full-rigged pinnace) A small "race built" galleon, square-rigged with either two or three masts. 3. In modern usage, any small boat other than a launch or lifeboat associated with a larger vessel. pintle

6. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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   AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...

7. A man rode out Hurricane Milton clinging to a cooler in the ...

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   The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a man who rode out ... the owner of the fishing boat reported to the Coast Guard that the captain had gone back out to the boat to make repairs at about 3 a.m. and ...