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  • Thumbnail for Keel laying
    Laying the keel or laying down is the formal recognition of the start of a ship's construction. It is often marked with a ceremony attended by dignitaries...
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  • Thumbnail for Pipe-laying ship
    between subsea structures. Lay methods consist of J-lay and S-lay and can be reel-lay or welded length by length. Pipelaying ships make use of dynamic positioning...
    2 KB (322 words) - 16:58, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Net laying ship
    A net laying ship, also known as a net layer, net tender, gate ship or boom defence vessel was a type of naval auxiliary ship. A net layer's primary function...
    10 KB (994 words) - 16:01, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cable layer
    A cable layer or cable ship is a deep-sea vessel designed and used to lay underwater cables for telecommunications, for electric power transmission, military...
    41 KB (4,813 words) - 16:17, 3 November 2024
  • "Lay Lady Lay", sometimes rendered "Lay, Lady, Lay", is a song written by Bob Dylan and originally released in 1969 on his Nashville Skyline album. Like...
    30 KB (2,740 words) - 16:47, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ailanthus-class net laying ship
    The Ailanthus class were a group of 35 wooden-hulled net laying ships of the United States Navy built during World War II as part of the huge building...
    11 KB (410 words) - 15:37, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ship
    A ship is a large vessel that travels the world's oceans and other navigable waterways, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized missions...
    110 KB (13,200 words) - 06:51, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solitaire (ship)
    Solitaire is a large deep-sea pipe laying ship. It was at the time of conversion the world's largest pipe-laying ship at 300 metres (984 ft) long (excluding...
    6 KB (408 words) - 19:27, 22 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Gremyashchiy-class corvette
    Gremyashchiy-class corvette (category Proposed ships)
    official laying down ceremony took place on 1 February 2012.[citation needed] Although classified as corvettes by the Russian Navy, these ships carry sensors...
    17 KB (1,180 words) - 21:21, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aloe-class net laying ship
    Aloe-class net laying ships were a class of thirty-two steel-hulled net laying ships built prior to the US entry into World War II. The lead ship, USS Aloe...
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  • Thumbnail for Lay Zhang
    born (1991-10-07)October 7, 1991), known professionally as Lay Zhang or simply Lay, is a Chinese rapper, singer-songwriter, dancer, actor, record producer...
    106 KB (9,306 words) - 00:59, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Container ship
    A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a...
    81 KB (7,976 words) - 09:46, 9 November 2024
  • and guitar With Saskia Maxwell – singing on "Ship of Ishtar", "Lunar Invocation" and "Asleep Do We Lay" Gong – additional instruments Frank Byng – cymbal...
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  • Thumbnail for Bidston Dock
    originally known as the West Float extension. The dock was first used for laying up ships, such as the Ellerman Lines' City of London and City of York. In 1947...
    10 KB (918 words) - 23:29, 8 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for CS Mackay-Bennett
    CS Mackay-Bennett (category Cable laying ships)
    The Cable Ship Mackay-Bennett was a transatlantic cable-laying and cable-repair ship registered at Lloyd's of London as a Glasgow vessel but owned by...
    16 KB (1,675 words) - 06:13, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS M33
    HMS M33 (category Royal Navy ship names)
    the Allied Intervention in 1919. She was used subsequently as a mine-laying training ship, fuelling hulk, boom defence workshop and floating office, being...
    9 KB (831 words) - 09:27, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Great Eastern
    for several years as a passenger liner between Britain and North America before being converted to a cable-laying ship and laying the first lasting transatlantic...
    48 KB (6,148 words) - 23:32, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of current ships of the United States Navy
    are commissioned ships. Prior to commissioning, ships may be described as a pre-commissioning unit or PCU, but are officially referred to by name with no...
    190 KB (4,132 words) - 00:25, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of largest cruise ships
    in a single trip, and are some of the largest ships in the world by gross tonnage (GT), bigger than many large cargo ships. Cruise ships started to exceed...
    99 KB (4,869 words) - 16:57, 4 November 2024
  • forest, chop a tree down, and then lay down and go to sleep until woken up. The foolish son does as suggested, and awakes to discover a flying ship, into which...
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