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    Ajax is a floating crane built to move and install the canal locks and other large parts of the Panama Canal. Ajax also helped in ship repairs and clearing...
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  • locomotives Ajax (motorcycle), manufactured in England between 1923 and 1924 Ajax (crane barge), a floating crane used to install the Panama Canal locks Ajax (ship)...
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    A crane vessel, crane ship, crane barge, or floating crane is a ship with a crane specialized in lifting heavy loads, typically exceeding 1,500 t (1,476...
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    crane in the world, passing up the Ajax crane barge completed in 1914. The imperial shipyard Wilhelmshaven needed a powerful and high lifting crane to...
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    RMS Queen Mary 2, who has traversed the Canal more than 50 times. Ajax (crane barge) Canal des Deux Mers Canal Zone Police Corinth Canal List of waterways...
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  • three ships of the French Navy Ajax (crane barge), a floating crane used to install the Panama Canal locks Ajax (disambiguation) This article includes...
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    Hotel, Panama Gorgas Hospital Panama–Pacific International Exposition Ajax crane barge Canal Zone Corozal American Cemetery and Memorial Fleet problem series...
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    to lift it physically from the mud using cranes or pontoons. One of the largest crane barges in the world, Ajax, built specifically for handling the gates...
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    using cranes or pontoons. There were no pontoons within 2,000 miles (3,200 km) of the site, but two of the largest crane barges in the world, Ajax and Hercules...
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    the Panama Canal, where it currently serves as the floating crane Titan. Titan retired Ajax and Hercules that had served the Panama Canal since its construction...
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    to lift it physically from the mud using cranes or pontoons. One of the largest crane barges in the world, Ajax, built specifically for handling the gates...
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    operations. Floating cranescranes mounted on barges–are in service for this work. MV Yugalraj and MV Viganraj are the two floating cranes used for deep sea...
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    lock in regular use, very large barge lock and a small skiff lock. The barge lock was made to accommodate long barges, steamers or passenger ferries and...
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    International. After the last harness had been secured, the crane from the recovery barge Karlissa B hoisted the submarine from the sea floor. She was...
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    the little harbor tug YTL-208, two pontoon crane barges, 20 LCMs, and 20 LCVPs. Except for the crane barges all these were self-propelled, but none could...
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    vessel. The two crane ships Gulliver and Rambiz from the Belgian company Scaldis were hired to lift the frigate onto the semi-submersible barge BOAbarge 33...
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  • igniting 350 tonnes of TNT; a barge nearby carried an additional 100 tonnes which also detonated. Royal Navy warships HMS Ajax and HMS Calcutta attempted...
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    to his daughter Athena, also used by Perseus. (Greek mythology) Shield of Ajax, a huge shield made of seven cow-hides with a layer of bronze. (Greek mythology)...
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    troopsship, 7 concrete 3,000-ton storage barges, 19 oil/water barges, 17 gasoline barges, 24 500-ton barges with ammunition, freight, spare parts, radio...
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    oiler USS Antona (IX-133), oiler tanker barge YO-76, oiler tanker barge USS Bullwheel (YO-46), oiler tanker barge USS Gamage (IX-227), storage for lubricants...
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    "Camp Hanford" in 1951. The following year the guns were augmented by Nike Ajax missiles, which were deployed at three sites on Wahluke Slope and one on...
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    4 cranes are used at Netaji Subhash Dock, which includes 1 Electric Level Luffing Crane and 3 Electric Cranes. The Electric Level Luffing Crane has...
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    flooded. Externally the largest visual change was the fitting of large crane-like gantry davits, each powered by an electric motor and capable of launching...
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    between the ship and a wet basin wall, narrowly missing a 100-ton dockside crane, and exploded underwater below the bilge keel. The explosion took place...
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    John H Iarrobino of Oriskany and analysis by the Naval Ammunition Depot in Crane, Indiana, showed that one in every thousand flares could ignite accidentally...
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    heavy-lift barge had less than 6 inches (15 cm) of clearance to the bottom of the lake. After Mesquite was off the bottom, the wreck and barge were winched...
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    motion. The entire slipway could be retracted into the ship, and a gantry crane ran the length of the slipway to help recover the seaplanes. The design...
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    propellant charges for her 16-inch guns. The ship received more fuel from a barge later that morning, but no order to attack ever came as it had been a false...
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    Mortlake, then outside, but now in South West London, in 1619 by Sir Francis Crane. It produced lighter, if vastly more expensive, decoration for rooms than...
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    made for the statues so none would be damaged during the move. A forty-ton crane was placed on a commercial ferry in order to lower the sculptures. Some...
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