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Impounding. Floating docks are generally maintained at a level at least as high as the highest tide. Apart from any considerations of navigation, lock gates are usually arranged as a chevron. [note 1] and can only hold back higher water in one direction, which must always be from within the dock.
A floating dock may refer to a number of constructions found in ports and harbours. Floating dock (impounded), a development of the half tide dock, where pumps or river flow are used to maintain the dock at around the high tide level of a nearby tidal waterway. Floating dock (jetty), a lightweight quay or jetty, floating on pontoons, that rises ...
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A wet dock or impounded dock is a variant in which the water is impounded either by dock gates or by a lock, thus allowing ships to remain afloat at low tide in places with high tidal ranges. The level of water in the dock is maintained despite the rising and falling of the tide. This makes transfer of cargo easier.
At the most basic level, a floating dock is isolated from tidal water by a lock gate, at least, although in many dock systems the entrance is more complex than this. Development and early docks London Howland's Wet Dock. The first wet dock was Howland Great Wet Dock or Greenland Dock, built in London at the end of the 17th century. This was not ...
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