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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.

3. Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard - Wikipedia

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   Bethlehem Steel, Sparrows Point, Maryland. Maryland Steel, in Sparrows Point, Maryland, US, was founded in 1887. It was acquired by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in 1916 and renamed as the Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard. The shipyard was sold in 1997 to Baltimore Marine Industries Inc.

4. Bethlehem Key Highway Shipyard - Wikipedia

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   Bethlehem Steel operated the shipyard for ship repair, conversion and some ship construction. Bethlehem's main ship construction site was across the harbor at Bethlehem Sparrows Point . Bethlehem Key Highway Shipyard was known as the Bethlehem Upper Yard located north-east side of Federal Hill .

5. Container crane - Wikipedia

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   The operator runs the trolley over the ship to lift the cargo, usually containers. Once the spreader locks onto the container, the container is lifted, moved over the dock, and placed on a truck chassis (trailer) to be taken to the storage yard. The crane also lifts containers from chassis on the dock to load them onto the ship.

6. 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.

7. Anchor - Wikipedia

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   Holding ground is the area of sea floor that holds an anchor, and thus the attached ship or boat. [4] Different types of anchor are designed to hold in different types of holding ground. [ 5 ] Some bottom materials hold better than others; for instance, hard sand holds well, shell holds poorly. [ 6 ]