Sentence examples for berthed ship from inspiring English sources

The influences of the difference of the water depths between the dock and the main channel, the dock geometry, the current and another berthed ship in the dock on the ship-ship interactions are studied.

The fenders have the functions of ensuring a safe berthing both for the ships and the piers by absorbing shock loads and preventing direct contact between the berthed ship and the pier.

It states that the spill occurred after workers unloading oil from the berthed ship accidentally set off an explosion and fire and that the oil was quickly contained before it could enter international waters.

The method is subsequently applied to predict the interaction forces acting on a berthed ship due to a passing ship in ports.

Complicated channel geometry and currents may aggravate the interactions between passing ships and berthed ships, which should be evaluated and taken into account in a port design.

In addition, the relieving platform affords the sheetpiling considerable help in resisting horizontal blows from the impact of berthing ships, and in order to increase this resistance some of the piles supporting the platform are often driven toward the quay face.

When designing fixed or semi-fixed structures used for berthing ships, it is generally assumed that the entire kinetic energy of the ship is absorbed by the fender or the system of fenders.

Details in the 10th-century charter in which King Eadred gave Reculver to the archbishops of Canterbury suggest that there was then an island immediately to the north, creating a "mini-Wantsum [Channel that] could have provided a sheltered channel for beaching and berthing ships"; the present day Black Rock beyond the shoreline may be a remnant of this island.

A stone bridge was built across the Avon, c. 1247 and between the years of 1240 and 1247 a Great Ditch was constructed in St Augustine's Marsh to straighten out the course of the River Frome and provide more space for berthing ships.

Despite recognition of numerous passengers with influenza-like illness when the ship berthed in Sydney on 25 May, public health authorities allowed passengers to disperse into the community because the ship had not visited any port where there were confirmed cases of pandemic influenza.

"America!" he shouted as the ship berthed in Quebec for Karno's first tour there in 1910, "I am coming to conquer you.