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    A slipway, also known as boat ramp or launch or boat deployer, is a ramp on the shore by which ships or boats can be moved to and from the water. They...
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  • Slipway Fires is the third album by English indie rock band Razorlight. It was released on 3 November 2008. The first single from the album, "Wire to...
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    lane from the new workshop to the slipway; the length of No. 0 slipway was lengthened by 30 meters; a horizontal slipway-side platform with a total weight...
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    Josefa Slipways, Inc. is a medium-category shipbuilding company based in Navotas, Philippines. It was established in 2005 to provide shipbuilding and ship...
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  • Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company Ltd was formerly an independent company, located on the River Tyne at Point Pleasant, near Wallsend, Tyne & Wear...
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  • "The Slipway" is a science-fiction novelette by Australian writer Greg Egan, first published in Analog in July/August 2019. It describes the discovery...
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    build the half-lock and weir, the Richmond Footbridge Sluices, Lock and Slipway Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. ccxxiv). This is among a small minority of Thames...
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    The Balloch Steam Slipway consists of a ramp, carriage and steam powered winch located on the shores of Loch Lomond by which ships or boats can be moved...
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    Islands group. It is the northeasternmost of the South Keeling Islands. A slipway and tank associated with the flying boat and sea rescue presence on the...
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  • Humphreys Boat Shed was a heritage-listed workshop and slipway at Seaworld Drive, Main Beach, Queensland, Australia. It was added to the Queensland Heritage...
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  • The Direction Island Slipway and Tank are heritage-listed industrial remnants at Direction Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia. The site was added...
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    Usha, the first modern steamship of free India, was launched from the slipway of the Hindustan Shipyard Limited in Visakhapatnam on March 14, 1948. The...
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    a few detached dwellings, a coastguard station and a boathouse with a slipway which once housed the Padstow lifeboat. The actor Edward Woodward lived...
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  • The Slipway Co-operative Ltd is a boat building and restoration company based at the Underfall Yard in Bristol, England. The Co-operative was founded...
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  • the Department of Agriculture. The ships are being constructed by Josefa Slipways Inc.'s shipyard in Sual, Pangasinan province in the Philippines, and is...
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  • Slipways is a video game developed by Beetlewing. It combines gameplay from puzzle games and grand strategy wargames, though it streamlines out war and...
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    boarding boat is provided so that the crew can reach it Slipway – an ALB slides down a slipway straight into the water Transporter – hovercraft are kept...
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    Tiree in the Inner Hebrides, Razorlight released their third studio album, Slipway Fires, on 3 November 2008 with the lead single, Wire to Wire, released...
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    Dok- en Werf Maatschappij NV', the equivalent of 'Wilton Engineering and Slipway Company'. Wilton started as a traditional smithy and expanded in machinery...
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    had deployed Tyne lifeboats at stations which launched their boats down slipways or needed to operate in shallow waters. The organisation desired to increase...
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    feet (191 m) Inclined Slipway 3 76 feet (23 m) 628 feet (191 m) Inclined Slipway 4 76 feet (23 m) 628 feet (191 m) Inclined Slipway 5 76 feet (23 m) 628...
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    River Tyne in North East England. They were designed to be launched from slipways or operate in shallow waters where hitting the bottom is a concern. The...
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    Bay, in Wellington Harbour in the North Island of New Zealand. The first slipway on the site was commissioned in May 1863 to enable maintenance of the hulls...
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    tons) could be assembled. The second slipway (No.1) was a flow-position line, located in the sheltered slipway and was actually a closed-loop autonomous...
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  • continuous track Skids, or skid loaders, a vehicle Skids, a nautical term for slipway Modular process skid, an engineered frame for equipment Skid, alias for...
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    A shiplift is a modern alternative for a slipway, a floating dry dock or a graving dry dock. A shiplift is used to dry dock and launch ships. It consists...
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  • slipway shall be determined according to the size of the ship and the hydrological condition of the area water. The bearing capacity of the slipway shall...
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    flensed at low-tide. Later mechanical winches and slipways were introduced. The whale was winched up the slipway onto a flensing plan, where men with long-handled...
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    Tirpitz sliding down the slipway at her launch...
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    the Morning", peaked at number three in the UK. The band's third album, Slipway Fires, was issued in November 2008, preceded by the lead single "Wire to...
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