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2. Fender (boating) - Wikipedia

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   Yachts, small leisure craft and support vessels typically have mobile fenders which are placed between the boat and the dock as the boat approaches the dock. Docks and other marine structures, such as canal entrances and bases of bridges, have permanent fenders placed to avoid damage from boats. Old tires are often used as fenders in such places.

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5. Dolphin (structure) - Wikipedia

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   Wood pilings grouped into a pair of dolphins serving as a protected entryway to a boat basin. A dolphin is a group of pilings arrayed together to serve variously as a protective hardpoint along a dock, in a waterway, or along a shore; as a means or point of stabilization of a dock, bridge, or similar structure; as a mooring point; and as a base for navigational aids.

6. Bridge protection systems - Wikipedia

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   Their ability to withstand a typical ship collision is low. Fenders are built using a variety of materials: [8] thin-walled concrete box; thin-walled steel membrane steel; rubber. Dolphins and artificial islands surrounding piers of the new (farthest) Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Note the collapsed spans of the old (nearest) bridge

7. Ship's wheel - Wikipedia

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   A ship's wheel or boat's wheel is a device used aboard a ship, boat, submarine, or airship, in which a helmsman steers the vessel and control its course. Together with the rest of the steering mechanism, it forms part of the helm (the term helm can mean the wheel alone, or the entire mechanism by which the rudder is controlled [ 1 ] ).

8. Barrier Boat - Wikipedia

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   Chuck's Boats founder Chuck Slape had decades of experience building rugged boats serving the Pacific Northwest coast booming grounds. The powerful little 12- to 16-ft boats were known as "log broncs" due to the boat's action from the popular azimuth drive, which would cause the boat to rear up like a rodeo horse when the props were spun around ...

9. US-1 Trucks - Wikipedia

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   Late in the range a 6-wheel rigid metal based container lorry was made. This was capable of being loaded with small ISO type Shipping container either by being backed into a loading dock or by being placed under the Faller working Container crane. Railway wagons to take the containers were also made and the crane could tranship them between ...