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  2. Ballast tank - Wikipedia

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    Cross section of a vessel with a single ballast tank at the bottom. A ballast tank is a compartment within a boat, ship or other floating structure that holds water, which is used as ballast to provide hydrostatic stability for a vessel, to reduce or control buoyancy, as in a submarine, to correct trim or list, to provide a more even load distribution along the hull to reduce structural ...

  3. Scow - Wikipedia

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    A New Zealand scow around 1900. A scow is a smaller type of barge. Some scows are rigged as sailing scows. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, scows carried cargo in coastal waters and inland waterways, having an advantage for navigating shallow water or small harbours. Scows were in common use in the American Great Lakes and other parts of ...

  4. Dogger (boat) - Wikipedia

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    Dogger (boat) The dogger ( Dutch pronunciation: [dɔɣər]) was a group of similar fishing boats, described as early as the fourteenth century, that commonly operated in the North Sea. Early examples were single-masted: by the seventeenth century, two-masted dogger s were common. They were largely used for fishing for cod by rod and line.

  5. Jolly boat - Wikipedia

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    The jolly boat was a type of ship's boat in use during the 18th and 19th centuries. Used mainly to ferry personnel to and from the ship, or for other small-scale activities, it was, by the 18th century, one of several types of ship's boat. The design evolved throughout its period in service. The term is still used informally when describing ...

  6. 9th U-boat Flotilla - Wikipedia

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    The 9th U-boat Flotilla ( German 9. Unterseebootsflottille) was formed in October 1941 in Brest. It became operational in April 1942, after the first combat ready U-boat, U-213, reached the Brest base on 20 March 1942. The flotilla operated mostly various marks of the Type VII U-boat and it concentrated its efforts mainly in the North Atlantic ...

  7. Dive boat - Wikipedia

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    A liveaboard dive boat on the Similan Islands, Thailand Deck of a dive boat for about 35 divers, with equipment and whiteboard for dive planning. A dive boat is a boat that recreational divers or professional scuba divers use to reach a dive site which they could not conveniently reach by swimming from the shore. Dive boats may be propelled by ...