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What's a sacrificial anode, sagging sampson-post or scum valve?
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Daughter boat
A fast support boat designed to be carried aboard a larger vessel. Standard boats are equipped with a special lifting arrangement with a steel frame for safe launch and recovery, and a release hook to fit a davit system.
Aids to navigation service and buoy laying vessel RELUME
According to HSB International September 2004. The sophisticated light tender RELUME was built by the Dutch shipbuilding group Damen for Middle East Navigation Aids Service (MENAS)...
Double-ended ferry COASTAL RENAISSANCE
According to Ferry Technology, December 2007/January 2008 Towards the end of 2007 the first of three new Coastal-class double-enders left Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft for British Columbia in Canada.