Our favorite boat is the Military Ponton Bridge Half Section. They have a Spoon Bow, High Chin, and railing around the exterior for carrying these in combat. These 685 lb aluminum boats were made to link with others and add planking to create bridges across rivers.

Cumberland pontoons were folding pontoon bridges developed during the American Civil War to facilitate the movement of Union forces across the rivers of the Mid-South as the Federal forces advanced southward through Tennessee and Georgia.

An Engineer Light Ponton Company was a combat engineer company of the United States Army that served with U.S. Army ground forces during World War II. [1] It was primarily a highly mobile pontoon bridge construction unit, though it also provided both M2 assault boats and a selection of infantry support bridging, ferries, and rafts.

A pontoon bridge (or ponton bridge), also known as a floating bridge, uses floats or shallow-draft boats to support a continuous deck for pedestrian and vehicle travel. The buoyancy of the supports limits the maximum load that they can carry.

The vessels are road, air and sea transportable and are used to construct and manage floating ribbon (pontoon) bridges for mobile armoured units. When coupled to a bridge section they can also be used to ferry military vehicles across open water.

Engineers can use the full 36- pontoon set to construct 227 meters of the bridge. They may also configure it as 40- to 170-ton rafts. A half-set gives the capability to construct 119 meters of...

Jul 7, 2015 · The Bridge Erection Boat, the Improved Ribbon Bridge (IRB), and their transporter are required to construct and retrieve up to nearly 690 feet of floating bridge.

Dec 11, 2011 · The pontoon can be used either as a pontoon on a bridge or as a boat: Its outside dimensions are 21’1” x 5’1” x 2’6.5” in depth; its weight is 7cwt 1qr 0lbs., and its tonnage 9.685 tons. In horizontal section it is rectangular, its sides are nearly straight and vertical, and its …

Advanced Venetian troops swam across the river and began building a floating pontoon bridge to provide the rest of the army access to the Austrian controlled forts, Castel Beseno and Castel...