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Turning basin, the Glossary

A turning basin, winding basin or swinging basin is a wider body of water, either located at the end of a ship canal or in a port to allow cargo ships to turn and reverse their direction of travel, or to enable long narrow barges in a canal to turn a sharp corner.^[1]

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Water transport infrastructure

Canal

Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). Turning basin and Canal are water transport infrastructure.

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Canal basin

A canal basin is (particularly in the United Kingdom) an expanse of waterway alongside or at the end of a canal, and wider than the canal, constructed to allow boats to moor or unload cargo without impeding the progress of other traffic, and to allow room for turning, thus serving as a winding hole. Turning basin and canal basin are water transport infrastructure.

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Cargo ship

A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another.

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Kennedy Space Center

The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center), located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) ten field centers.

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Maneuvering thruster

Manoeuvering thrusters (bow thrusters and stern thrusters) are transversal propulsion devices built into or mounted to either the bow or stern (front or back, respectively) of a ship or boat to make it more manoeuvrable.

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Miami

Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.

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Narrowboat

A narrowboat is a particular type of canal boat, built to fit the narrow locks of the United Kingdom.

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Nottingham Canal

The Nottingham Canal is a canal in the English counties of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

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Port

A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers.

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Ship canal

A ship canal is a canal especially intended to accommodate ships used on the oceans, seas, or lakes to which it is connected.

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Space Shuttle external tank

The Space Shuttle external tank (ET) was the component of the Space Shuttle launch vehicle that contained the liquid hydrogen fuel and liquid oxygen oxidizer.

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Tugboat

A tugboat or tug is a marine vessel that manoeuvres other vessels by pushing or pulling them, with direct contact or a tow line.

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Vehicle Assembly Building

The Vehicle Assembly Building (originally the Vertical Assembly Building), or VAB, is a large building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, designed to assemble large pre-manufactured space vehicle components, such as the massive Saturn V, the Space Shuttle and the Space Launch System, and stack them vertically onto one of three mobile launcher platforms used by NASA.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_basin

Also known as Swinging basin, Winding basin.