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Syncrolift AS is a supplier of ship-handling equipment for shipyards. It manufactures the Syncrolift shiplift.
Syncrolift AS is a supplier of ship-handling equipment for shipyards. It manufactures the Syncrolift shiplift.
Shiplift
The Syncroliftshiplift
A shiplift is a modern alternative for a slipway, a dry dock, floating dry dock or a dry dock, graving dry dock. A shiplift is used to dry dock and launch ships. It consists of a structural platform that is lifted and lowered exactly vertically, ...
is a piece of equipment for lifting boats, ships and vessels onto land and back at sea for maintenance work or repair.
The vessel is maneuvered over a submerged cradle, which is then lifted by a set of synchronized hoists or winches. The vessel can be worked upon in place, or it can be moved inland.
The largest shiplifts can lift vessels up to 100,000 tons. Because of this capacity, shiplifts have almost completely supplanted the older dry dock
A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, ...
systems, most of which could handle only one vessel at a time.
History
The Syncrolift shiplift was invented in the mid 1950s byRaymond Pearlson
Raymond Pearlson (born 2 March 1926) is an American marine engineer and the inventor of the Syncrolift System, which was designed to both launch ships and lift them out of the water for repair.
Biography
Pearlson was born in 1926 in New York Cit ...
when he was working as Chief Engineer for Merrill Stevens, a small Miami
Miami is a East Coast of the United States, coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in South Florida. It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a populat ...
shipyard. In 1958 he formed Pearlson Engineering Company (PECO) to develop his invention.
In 1979, PECO was taken over by the British engineering group Northern Engineering Industries
Northern Engineering Industries plc (NEI) was a British engineering firm, which for over 10 years was one of the largest employers on Tyneside. Its headquarters were based at the Regent Centre at Gosforth in Newcastle upon Tyne.
History
The com ...
(NEI) . PECO became NEI Syncrolift, and later part of Rolls-Royce. Rolls-Royce developed the modern Syncrolift shiplift until 2015.
In 2002, Raymond Pearlson was awarded the Elmer A. Sperry Award for the "invention, development and worldwide implementation of a new system for lifting ships out of the water for repair and for launching new ship construction.".
References
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