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Underfall Yard — The Underfall Yard is a historic boatyard on Spike Island serving Bristol Harbour, the harbour in the city of Bristol, England. Underfall Yard was commonly referred to as The Underfalls and takes its name from the underfall sluices. The original… …   Wikipedia

Cooks Yard — Barge blocks in the River Blackwater at Cooks Yard Walter Cook established a Thames sailing barge building business in 1894 on the bank of the River Blackwater at Maldon, Essex, England. The business, known as Walter Cook and Son, operated until… …   Wikipedia

Williamstown, Victoria — Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb name = Williamstown city = Melbourne state = vic caption = Nelson Place, in the restaurant precinct. lga = City of Hobsons Bay area = 5.5 postcode = 3016 pop = 12,733 (2006)Census 2006 AUS | id = SSC21735… …   Wikipedia

Salford Junction — (gbmapping|SP095901) is the name of the junction where the Grand Union Canal and Tame Valley Canal meet the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal north of Birmingham, England.One of the Birmingham terminations of the Grand Union Canal (originally here… …   Wikipedia

Sausalito, California — Infobox Settlement official name = Sausalito, California settlement type = City imagesize = image caption = image imagesize = image caption = image mapsize = 250x200px map caption = Location in Marin County and the state of California mapsize1 =… …   Wikipedia

Emergency Shipbuilding program — The Emergency Shipbuilding Program (late 1940 September 1945) was a United States government effort to quickly build simple cargo ships to carry troops and materiel to allies and foreign theatres during World War II. Run by the U.S. Maritime… …   Wikipedia

List of shipbuilders and shipyards — This is a list of shipbuilding companies with mention of their respective shipyards. AsiaBangladesh*Dhaka Dockyard Engineering Works *Western Marine Shipyard *Ananda Shipyards Shipways *HighSpeed Shipyard *Khan Brothers Shipbuilding Ltd. *KHULNA… …   Wikipedia

John Isaac Thornycroft — Infobox Person name = John Isaac Thornycroft caption = Naval architect and founder of two firms carrying the Thornycroft name birth date = February 1843 birth place = Vatican City, Rome dead=dead death date = June 1928 death place = Bembridge,… …   Wikipedia

Portsmouth — /pawrts meuhth, pohrts /, n. 1. a seaport in S Hampshire, in S England, on the English Channel: chief British naval station. 200,900. 2. a seaport in SE Virginia: navy yard. 104,577. 3. a seaport in SE New Hampshire: naval base; Russian Japanese… …   Universalium

List of Republic of Korea Navy ships — This is a list of major Republic of Korea Navy ships. The South Korean navy employs the US Navy style letter based hull classification symbols to designate the types of its ships and hull numbers to uniquely identify its vessels (e.g. DDH 975).… …   Wikipedia

Proa — A proa or prau is a type of multihull sailing vessel. While the word proa just means boat in its native language, the term proa in Western languages has come to describe a vessel consisting of two (usually) unequal length parallel hulls, sailed… …   Wikipedia