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I'm thinking this should be in a Category:Maritime or Category:Nautical that is immediately under Category:Technology (transportation seems not quite right because watery things are also used for fishing), but am not quite willing to commit. Stan 01:47, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Maritime is associated with salt water oceans.
Nautical is associated with boats and ships and their construction, operation, maintenance, and navigation.
Nautical looks like a better category to me. Leonard G. 04:47, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
OED seems to treat them as synonyms. Library of Congress Classification seems to include civilian stuff under "naval science", bleah. "Nautical" is probably the best, although I wish it could be a noun... Stan 17:21, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] moved heavy-lift ship section

I moved the section on heavy-lift ships to Semi-submersible, reasoning that the distinguishing characteristic of things in the dry dock article is that repairs take place on them. This would exclude heavy-lift ships, whose purpose is less salvage than moving oil rigs around. Bbpen 14:07, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Largest dry dock

To my knowledge, the largest dry dock is in South Korea, followed by the one in Dubai. BoH 01:23, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

I thought it was at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, UK. The one that Titanic and Olympic were built in, and was used to build Suezmax oil tankers. --w2ch00 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.128.27.99 (talk) 22:05, 25 January 2007 (UTC).
Titanic was constructed on a slipway, not actually in the large drydock at H&W 63.240.228.37 (talk) 16:25, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Various pages relating to hauling vessels

I'm posting this on the talk pages of the related articles, in the hope of unifying them.

I've just discovered the very haphazard nature of articles relating to the various methods of (for want of a completely neutral discriptor) removing a boat or ship from the water. There is lots of crisscrossing going on between dry dock, slipway, patent slip, marine railway, shiplift .... There isn't even a page for the most common name of one method (albeit a brand name), Travelift, or lift ship, as used for the USS Cole.

I suggest the following reorganization:

  • Drydock - with Floating Drydock and Graving Dock as subsections (pretty much as-is)
  • Lift Dock - with Shiplift as a redirect (this because the same basic concept is applied to vessels from the smallest to the really big)
  • Marine Railway - with Patent slip as a redirect
  • Boat Ramp - with Slipway as a redirect
  • Travelift
  • Lift Ship

Each article would have a common set of links to the others.

Also, I think a distinction needs to be made between launching ways that have no means to haul a vessel out, and a true marine railway.

Comments? Pjbflynn 06:50, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Secondary use

We should list it's use as a term in general speech.

[edit] Lincon"s invention

I have removed the following text from the article:

[edit] Abraham Lincoln's invention

  • Abraham Lincoln patented his floating drydock on May 22, 1849, U.S. Patent 6,469 . He was the first, and as of 2007 the only, U.S. President to receive a patent. [1]

The invention described is not a drydock, but a form of a device called a camel[2]. Interesting information for a future Camel (nautical) article, though. Pjbflynn (talk) 00:52, 20 November 2007 (UTC)