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2. Active-class patrol boat - Wikipedia

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   1 600-watt 12" spotlight. The Active-class patrol boat was one of the most useful and long-lasting classes of United States Coast Guard cutters. Of the 35 built in the 1920s, 16 were still in service during the 1960s. The last to be decommissioned from active service was the Morris in 1970; the last in actual service was the Cuyahoga, which ...

3. Factory ship - Wikipedia

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   The German factory ship Kiel NC 105. A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean-going vessel with extensive on-board facilities for processing and freezing caught fish or whales. Modern factory ships are automated and enlarged versions of the earlier whalers, and their use for fishing has grown dramatically.

4. USCGC Eagle (WIX-327) - Wikipedia

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   USCGC. Eagle. (WIX-327) USCGC Eagle (WIX-327), formerly Horst Wessel and also known as Barque Eagle, is a 295-foot (90 m) barque used as a training cutter for future officers of the United States Coast Guard. She is one of only two active commissioned sailing vessels in the United States military today, along with USS Constitution which is ...

5. History of fishing - Wikipedia

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   Fishing is an ancient practice that dates back at least to the Upper Paleolithic period which began about 40,000 years ago. [4][5] Isotopic analysis of the skeletal remains of Tianyuan man, a 40,000-year-old modern human from eastern Asia, has shown that he regularly consumed freshwater fish. [6][7] Archaeological features such as shell middens ...

6. Port of Goole - Wikipedia

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   The modern day port consists of eight docks and two dry docks. Boats can enter from the north-east via Victoria Lock and Ouse Lock, or via the south-east via Ocean Lock. [67] The port has a complement of 20 berths with a maximum draft of 5.5 metres (18 ft). The length of vessels entering the dock cannot exceed 100 metres (330 ft). [68]

7. Net cutter (fisheries patrol) - Wikipedia

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   Net cutters, or trawlwire cutters, were secret weapons [1] employed by the Icelandic Coast Guard during the latter two Cod Wars to cut the trawling wires of foreign fishing trawlers working within the then newly claimed Exclusive Fisheries zones . They were invented by Commander Pétur Sigurðsson, Director of the Coast Guard, with assistance ...