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    in ancient Egypt, these were used in Europe until the mid–19th century. At the stern of ships for fishing or research. These may be fixed or luffing...
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  • appear to pass at different rates in the ship frame and the planetary frame, and this means that the ship's speed and journey time will appear different...
    14 KB (1,865 words) - 10:19, 28 May 2024
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    facilities and then shipped to the different job sites. This process of framing has improved the speed of framing on site moving the framing of buildings to...
    36 KB (4,602 words) - 22:12, 27 April 2024
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    German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran (category Ships built in Kiel)
    Frame (1993), p. 6 Olson (2000), p. 40 Frame (1993), p. 7 Olson (2000), p. 52 Milligan and Foley, Australian Hospital Ship Centaur, pp. 18–20 Frame (1993)...
    76 KB (9,855 words) - 01:44, 29 May 2024
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    of Booster 7 in mid-October, before being destacked on October 16, 2022, and restacked on October 20, 2022. On November 8, 2022, Ship 24 was destacked...
    189 KB (15,336 words) - 15:55, 6 June 2024
  • alternative term for a net laying ship. boomer Slang term in the US Navy for a ballistic missile submarine. boom crutch A frame in which the boom rests when...
    306 KB (38,471 words) - 11:10, 13 May 2024
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    HMAS Melbourne (R21) (category Ships built in Barrow-in-Furness)
    4 Frame, The Cruel Legacy, pp. 5–6 Bastock, Australia's Ships of War, p. 311 Jeremy, Cockatoo Island, p. 135 Frame, Where Fate Calls, p. 72 Frame, The...
    97 KB (11,108 words) - 01:52, 3 April 2024
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    Timber framing (German: Fachwerkbauweise) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures...
    91 KB (10,840 words) - 15:13, 18 May 2024
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    Ship models or model ships are scale models of ships. They can range in size from 1/6000 scale wargaming miniatures to large vessels capable of holding...
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  • stand. stocks The frame that supports a ship or boat when it is being built. stoker See fireman. Stone Fleet A fleet of old ships loaded with stone,...
    251 KB (31,530 words) - 13:14, 13 May 2024
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    Releases Details of Queen Victoria Cruise Ship Refit". Cruise Critic. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2017. Chris Frame (2 August 2017). "Queen Victoria Britannia...
    28 KB (2,883 words) - 01:36, 25 March 2024
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    A littoral combat ship (LCS) is either of two classes of relatively small surface vessels designed for near-shore operations by the United States Navy...
    138 KB (12,758 words) - 00:29, 30 May 2024
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    ships, uses a system of large towers attached to the ship at both ends of each cargo hold. As the ship is loaded, a rigid, removable stacking frame is...
    80 KB (7,904 words) - 11:30, 26 May 2024
  • The technique of composite ship construction (wooden planking over a wrought iron frame) emerged in the mid-19th century as the final stage in the evolution...
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    Chris Frame and Rachelle Cross (August 2008). "QE2: A Photographic Journey". Book. The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-4803-9. Cunard agreed to name ship Queen...
    124 KB (14,140 words) - 00:50, 7 May 2024
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    Jeep Grand Cherokee (category Mid-size sport utility vehicles)
    range of mid-size SUVs produced by the American manufacturer Jeep. At its introduction, while most SUVs were still manufactured with body-on-frame construction...
    69 KB (6,916 words) - 04:10, 5 June 2024
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    unfragmented message consists of a single frame with FIN = 1 and opcode ≠ 0. A fragmented message consists of a single frame with FIN = 0 and opcode ≠ 0, followed...
    49 KB (3,670 words) - 16:04, 23 May 2024
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    Shipbuilding (redirect from Ship-building)
    remained the dominant approach where fast ships were required, with wooden timbers laid over an iron frame (Cutty Sark is a famous example). Later Great...
    73 KB (8,703 words) - 01:40, 14 May 2024
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    Francis Sheldon and the Swedish admiralty. After four years of service, the ship foundered in rough weather at the Battle of Öland on 1 June 1676: while making...
    61 KB (8,186 words) - 05:00, 1 June 2024
  • The ship prefix for ROCN combatants is ROCS (Republic of China Ship); an older usage is CNS (Chinese Navy Ship). ROCN also avoids giving ships hull numbers...
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