![]() ‘Berth’ is the technically correct term for the area alongside a pier or wharf where a ship is secured (tied up). Besides by using piles, they could be built using caissons (concrete boxes sunk on a rock mattress on the sea floor), sheet pile wall (steel sheets driven into the sea bed and tied back to deadmen or anchors into the existing fill on shore), or even timber or concrete cribs. Wharfs and piers can be constructed many different ways. ![]() The reasons are for sake of convenience and to make clear to non-engineering authorities in Ottawa, especially those with budgetary control, that there is really a single “real property asset class.” Berthing structures in Her Majesty’s Canadian Dockyards are called jetties whatever their real form. The technically correct terms are pier or wharf. Quay (or quai): a structure that ties two wharves or piers together along the shore line.Īt times a jetty, pier or wharf is referred to as a dock. When the wharf is connected to the shore along its full length it is called a marginal wharf. Wharf: a berthing structure that runs parallel to the shore. Pier: a berthing structure that runs perpendicular (or at an angle) to the shore and projects out into the water. Jetties can also be built to protect inlet channels from cross currents or storm waves. Jetty: a marine structure, usually built perpendicular to the shore, extending out into the water to direct and confine a stream or tidal flow to a selected channel and to prevent or reduce scour or shoaling of that channel. Definitions differ between Canadian/British English and American English the former are used below. However, there is a separate definition for each. The terms pier, jetty and wharf are often used interchangeably by the media, public and even personnel of the Royal Canadian Navy. Breakwaters, Jetties, Bulkheads & Seawalls, Pile Buck, 1992 Harbours, Piers & Wharfs, Pile Buck, 1990ī.
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