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  2. Chain boat - Wikipedia

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    Chain boat and barges on the River Seine in France in the early 20th century. A chain boat, [1] [2] chain tug [3] or chain-ship [4] was a type of river craft, used in the second half of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century on many European rivers, [5] that made use of a steel chain laid along the riverbed for its propulsion.

  3. Chain boat navigation - Wikipedia

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    Chain boat navigation. Postcard showing a chain steamer on river Seine in France. The caption reads "Conflans Sainte-Honorine – An arm of the Seine waterway. A train of barges.". A model of a German chain steamer on the Elbe. Chain-boat navigation[1] or chain-ship navigation[2] is a little-known chapter in the history of shipping on European ...

  4. Chain boat navigation on the Main - Wikipedia

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    Chain boat tow on the Main (ca. 1896) Chain boat of the Mainkette-AG in front of the "Mainkai" in Frankfurt After navigation on the Main had lost more and more of its transport capacity to the railway and the use of wheeled steam tugs had failed due to the shallow navigation channel of the Main, Heino Held, owner of the Mainz-based forwarding and coal trading company C.J.H. Held & Cie., had ...

  5. Steam donkey - Wikipedia

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    Steam donkey. A steam donkey or donkey engine is a steam-powered winch once widely used in logging, mining, maritime, and other industrial applications. Steam-powered donkeys were commonly found on large metal-hulled multi-masted cargo vessels in the later decades of the Age of Sail on through the Age of Steam, particularly heavily sailed ...

  6. Anchor windlass - Wikipedia

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    A windlass is a machine used on ships that is used to let-out and heave-up equipment such as a ship's anchor or a fishing trawl. On some ships, it may be located in a specific room called the windlass room. An anchor windlass is a machine that restrains and manipulates the anchor chain on a boat, allowing the anchor to be raised and lowered by ...

  7. Cable ferry - Wikipedia

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    A cable ferry (including the types chain ferry, swing ferry, floating bridge, or punt) is a ferry that is guided (and in many cases propelled) across a river or large body of water by cables connected to both shores. Early cable ferries often used either rope or steel chains, with the

  8. TID-class tug - Wikipedia

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    TID-class tug. assembly and fitting out by Richard Dunston Ltd., (Thorne and Hessle), William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd., Southwick, Sunderland. TID was a standardized British design for a tugboat drawn up and built during the Second World War. One hundred and eighty two (TID-1 to TID-12 and TID-14 to TID-183) were built for the Ministry of War ...

  9. Merchant ship - Wikipedia

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    Merchant ship. A merchant ship, merchant vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire. This is in contrast to pleasure craft, which are used for personal recreation, and naval ships, which are used for military purposes. They come in myriad sizes and shapes, from six-metre (20 ft ...