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2. Tidewater (marine services) - Wikipedia

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   Tidewater, Inc. is a publicly traded international petroleum service company headquartered in Houston,Texas, U.S. It operates a fleet of ships, primarily providing vessels and marine services to the offshore petroleum and offshore wind industries. Tidewater created the "work boat" industry with its 1956 launch of the Ebb Tide, the world's first ...

3. Maurice Griffiths - Wikipedia

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   Maurice Griffiths. Maurice Walter Griffiths GM (22 May 1902 – 11 October 1997) [1] was a noted yachtsman, boat designer and writer on sailing subjects. In his writing of some 19 books he focused on the creeks of the Thames Estuary and the English east coast. His books include The Magic of the Swatchways, The First of the Tide, Yachting on a ...

4. Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal - Wikipedia

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   Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal. The Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal between Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, and Havre de Grace, Maryland, at the head of Chesapeake Bay, provided an interstate shipping alternative to 19th-century arks, rafts, and boats plying the difficult waters of the lower Susquehanna River. Built between 1836 and 1840, it ran ...

5. Virginia Beach, Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Website. Official website. Virginia Beach, officially the City of Virginia Beach, is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The population was 459,470 at the 2020 census. [2] Located on the southeastern coast of Virginia, it is the fifth-most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic and the 42nd-most populous city ...

6. USS Sequoia (presidential yacht) - Wikipedia

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   USS Sequoia is the former presidential yacht used during the administrations of Herbert Hoover through Jimmy Carter; setting a cost-cutting example, Carter ordered her sold in 1977. Often called the “floating White House”, the Sequoia offered presidents, first families and high-ranking government officials a place to escape the complexities ...

7. Chesapeake Bay deadrise - Wikipedia

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   The Chesapeake Bay deadrise or deadrise workboat is a type of traditional fishing boat used in the Chesapeake Bay. Watermen use these boats year round for everything from crabbing and oystering to catching fish or eels. Traditionally wooden hulled, the deadrise is characterised by a sharp bow that quickly becomes a flat V shape moving aft along ...