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strategies are raster passes, waterline passes, constant step-over passes, pencil milling. Finishing Finishing involves many light passes across the material...

arise. The load line is a waterline that corresponds to the maximum draft of the ship, thus yet another name, load waterline. Varying water temperatures...

The West Brabant waterline (Dutch: West-Brabantse waterlinie) (later: Stelling West Noord-Brabant) is a Dutch military defense line based on inundation...

of the waterline beam measurement is called 4" waterline, where the displacement is taken into account. This measurement is done at the waterline level...

forward-most part of the bow above the waterline. A ship's bow should be designed to enable the hull to pass efficiently through the water. Bow shapes...

vessel by accelerating a volume of water as it passes through a specialised pump mounted above the waterline inside the boat hull. Both methods yield thrust...

Titanic collided with an iceberg, damaging the hull's plates below the waterline on the starboard side, causing the front compartments to flood. The ship...

height above the waterline of 35.5 metres (116.5 ft). A number of lake freighters larger than this size cruise the Great Lakes and cannot pass through to the...

an open moon pool above the waterline, in a catamaran or a semi-submersible platform An open moon pool at the waterline, in a ship or floating structure...

creating the "helm port" through which the rudder passes) to a point well above the vessel's waterline. Whereas the timbers of the transom stern all heeled...

ship's waterline. In theory this belt would absorb the explosions from torpedoes, or any naval artillery shells that struck below the waterline, and thus...

89°15′14″W / 29.157°N 89.254°W / 29.157; -89.254 The Battle of the Head of Passes was a bloodless naval battle of the American Civil War. It was a naval raid...

The problem was that a pipe that had long ago been removed that used to pass through the uptakes was hooked back up. The 6-to-8-inch (150 to 200 mm) pipe...

side, and none below the waterline." The expedition found no penetrations in the main armoured belt, above or below the waterline. The examiners noted several...

to generate 5-20% fuel savings. A Flettner rotor mounted beneath the waterline of a ship's hull and emerging laterally will act to stabilize the ship...

since at least 1896. The stump is about 2 feet (61 cm) in diameter at the waterline and stands approximately 4 feet (1.2 m) above the water. Its surface has...

bath. G Deck, the lower deck, had the lowest portholes, just above the waterline. The first-class squash court was located here along with the travelling...

be lifted and lowered using the main hoist from 20 m (66 ft) below the waterline to 135 m (443 ft) above it when SSCV Sleipnir is operating at its maximum...

1672, the Rampjaar, but the invaders failed to get past the Old Dutch Waterline. In June 1787, 27 posts were created by the Patriots and on 18 September...

conducted by the Chinese in the area, becoming the first American warship to pass through the Taiwan Strait since 1976. Nimitz also cruised the Persian Gulf...