slipway
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12 sectionsContents
- Maintaining and repairing the hull of a ship
- Early slipways
- Early slipways in the Netherlands
- Modern slipways
- The patent slip
- The slipway after 1832
- Improvements
- Related concepts
- Slipways in ship construction
- See also
- Notes
- References
thumb|right|Slipways in the harbour of South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England thumb|Small slipway in Greetsiel, Germany, 2011
A slipway is a ramp on the shore by which ships and other vessels can be moved to and from the water. They are used for repairing and sometimes building ships and boats.