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unusual facts about ballast


Ballast

In some racing series, for example the British Touring Car Championship, ballast is used as a handicap, the leading drivers at the end of one race being given more ballast for the next race.


Balanus eburneus

The native range of the ivory barnacle extends from Nova Scotia to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico but it has extended this range as a result of fouling the bottoms of ships and because its larvae are sometimes transported in ballast water.

Ballast Point

Ballast Point Brewing Company, a microbrewery named after Ballast Point in San Diego.

Ballast Point Light, a lighthouse situated on Ballast Point, on Point Loma in San Diego Bay, California

Ballast Point Park, a park in the neighborhood of Ballast Point in the city of Tampa, Florida

Ballast water regulation in the United States

The 110th Congress considered ballast water discharge issues, specifically legislation to provide a uniform national approach for addressing aquatic nuisance species from ballast water under a program administered by the Coast Guard (S.

Carrington, New South Wales

Originally, the island was underwater at high tide and was slowly built up by ships dumping ballast and other reclamation work, which eventually saw the island grow out of the mud.

Edmund Getty

He became Ballast Master of the Belfast Ballast Board and, later, Secretary of the Belfast Harbour Board.

Fort Guijarros

In 1962 the United States Navy built a submarine base on Ballast Point as home port for the Pacific Fleet's nuclear attack submarines.

Great Lakes Protection Fund

Designed and deployed the first remote monitoring technologies to track water levels, pumping activity, and water chemistry in ballast tanks while ships are underway;

Harappa

The ancient city of Harappa was heavily damaged under the British rule, when bricks from the ruins were used as track ballast in the making of the Lahore-Multan Railroad.

Haudaudine

She had arrived earlier from Yokohama, Japan, in ballast and was loaded for her homeward voyage with 3,042 tons of nickel ore from the Katavite mines bound for Rotterdam, Germany.

Kingston valve

On surface ships, Kingston valves are fitted on ship systems such as fuel tanks, water tanks, and ballast tanks.

Mark V tank

During World War 2, it was used as a ballast weight to test Bailey bridges.

Molasses Reef Wreck

structure of the ship from the distribution of ballast stones and from marks made in the sea floor by parts of the hull that had disintegrated since the wreck.

NBA salary cap

The tight salary-matching rules of the 2005 CBA often required what NBA cap analyst Larry Coon called "trade ballast"—extra players added to a deal solely for salary matching, who would typically be waived by their new teams.

Pallavaram

A major archaeological find was made in the year 1864 when the British archaeologist Robert Bruce Foote discovered a stone implement from the Paleolithic Age inside a ballast pit.

Pill Harriers RFC

At the end of Jeddo Street, Baldwin Street and Marion Street in Pill was an area of bogland which was filled with ballast from ships calling at the Old Town Dock, North Dock and Alexandra Dock.

Regulation of ship pollution in the United States

The 110th Congress (2007-2009) had been considering ballast water discharge issues, specifically legislation to provide a uniform national approach for addressing aquatic nuisance species from ballast water under a program administered by the Coast Guard.

Sleeps Hill railway station

Sleeps Hill was the location of a number of quarries which became the source of ballast stone for the South Australian Railways (SAR).

The Maidens lighthouses

After receiving requests from Larne merchants and Admiral Benjamin Hallowell Carew for a lighthouse to be placed on The Maidens, George Halpin, the Ballast Board's Inspector of Works and Inspector of Lighthouses, inspected the rocks in 1819.

Tonnage war

Alternatively, the aim may be to target ships carrying particularly valuable cargos such as treasure or munitions, and ships carrying less critical cargoes or steaming in ballast are assigned a lower priority.


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