Talk:Patent slip
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A very well done article, but isn't this more commonly known as a Marine Railway? The description doesn't mention rails, but they are visible in the photo.
As there currently is no Marine Railway article, I'm going to redirect that here. In the long run, I suggest renaming this article, as I believe Patent Slip to be a regional term. Pjbflynn 05:45, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Various hauling methods
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 06:52, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
