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  2. Military radio antenna kites - Wikipedia

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    It included a winged box kite to raise the antenna. An NSG2 was captured by the British in 1941 and copied as the "Dinghy Transmitter" T-1333. At first the British used a box kite with the set, but by 1943 were using a kite, similar to Silas J. Conyne's 1911 design, [ 13 ] that could be launched by a Very pistol .

  3. Anchor - Wikipedia

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    Auger anchors can be used to anchor permanent moorings, floating docks, fish farms, etc. These anchors, which have one or more slightly pitched self-drilling threads, must be screwed into the seabed with the use of a tool, so require access to the bottom, either at low tide or by use of a diver.

  4. Sea anchor - Wikipedia

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    A marine parachute anchor for a large yacht awaiting bagging up. A conical sea anchor with tripline (from an illustration in The Sailors Handbook by Halsey C. Herreshoff). An early wooden drogue. A sea anchor (also known as a parachute anchor, drift anchor, drift sock, para-anchor or boat brake) is a device that is streamed from a boat in heavy ...

  5. Navy lighterage pontoon - Wikipedia

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    It was first assembled into individual boxes that were joined in multiples to construct docks, causeways, barges, dry docks, floating cranes, marine railways or whatever was needed. Capt. Carl A. Carlson CEC of the War Plans Office came up with the concept of NLPs in 1935, [ 1 ] but it was in 1940 that the US Navy looked at the idea more seriously.

  6. Guy-wire - Wikipedia

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    A sailboat's mast is supported by shrouds (side-to-side) and stays (fore-and-aft) – nautical equivalents of guy wires.. A guy-wire, guy-line, guy-rope, down guy, or stay, also called simply a guy, is a tensioned cable designed to add stability to a freestanding structure.

  7. Boat anchor (metaphor) - Wikipedia

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    The term boat anchor has been extended to software code [6] that is left in a system's codebase, typically in case it is needed later. This is an example of an anti-pattern and therefore can cause many problems for people attempting to maintain the program that contains the obsolete code. The key problem comes from the fact that programmers ...