Pontoon bridge

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English: Pontoon bridges are floating bridges supported by barge- or boat-like pontoons to support the bridge deck and its dynamic loads.


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[edit] Civilian permanent bridges

  • Floating cubes tied one to the other

  • Pontoon and bridge at Hayling Island, Hampshire, UK

  • Pontoon bridge on Lake Okutama, Japan

  • Eastbank Esplanade floating bridge, Willamette River, Portland, Oregon, USA

  • West India Quay Bridge, Canary Wharf, London, UK

  • Old pontoon bridge (before 2003) over the river Soz between Korma (Karma) and Volincy, Belarus

  • New pontoon bridge over the river Soz close to Korma (Karma), Belarus

  • Bridge over Moskva River in Kolomna, Russia

  • Pontoon bridge in Kolomna swinging back after opening for shipping

  • Pontoon bridge across river Mures in Arad, Romania

  • Pontoon bridge across Wupper in Leverkusen-Rheindorf, Germany

  • Poland, Gdansk-Sobieszewo - pontoon bridge on Martwa Wisla (Dead Vistula)

  • Nordhordland Bridge, combination of cable-stayed and pontoon bridge

  • Bergsøysundbrua, Norway

  • Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge (left), Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge

[edit] Military

  • Crossing of Machinato Inlet, Battle of Okinawa, 1945

  • Slaght Bridge in Antrim, Northern Ireland

  • PMP pontoon bridge in Yad la-Shiryon Museum, Israel.

  • PMP pontoon bridge in Yad la-Shiryon Museum, Israel.

  • GSP-55 pontoon carrier, museum in Drzonów, Poland

  • Pontoon bridge across Suez Canal, 1973

  • Improved ribbon bridge of US Army

  • Bradley leaving pontoon bridge in Iraq

  • U.S. Army - Patrol on the Euphrates River

  • Romanian truck on pontoon bridge in multinational exercise

[edit] Temporary

  • Postwar bridge across river Inn at Braunau, Austria

  • Bridge bypassing road blocked by rockfall near Hergiswil, Switzerland

  • Bridge for the Fest del Redentore, Venice, Italy

  • THW's bridge building exercise on river Rhine at Speyer, Germany

  • Pontoon bridge across Danube at Novi Sad, Serbia

[edit] Historical

  • Roman bridge of boats across the lower Danube

  • Roman bridge of boats across the lower Danube

  • Bridge of boats across Danube at Buda-Pest, Hungary, around 1500 (mirror inverted print)

  • Akbar riding the elephant Hawa'I pursuing another elephant across a collapsing bridge of boats, 1561

  • Parma'a bridge over the Scheldt, closing the siege of Antwerp in 1585

  • Mannheim and pontoon bridge across river Rhine, Germany, 1740

  • Bridge of boats across river Danube at Budapest, Hungary, 1837

  • Pontoon bridge between Russellville and Dardanelle, Arkansas, USA

  • Pontoon bridge, USA, 1863

  • Pontoon boat used by the Army of the Potomac, Virginia, 1864

  • Pontoon Bridge across the Rappahannock river, Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA, 1883

  • The German Kaiser crossing river Seine at Suresnes, France, in 1871

  • Bridge across river Rhine at Cologne, Germany

  • Bridge at Cologne (formerly at Mainz); steamer passing through opening, 1888

  • The second floating bridge between Lidingö and Stockholm, Sweden, 1884

  • Pontoon bridge near Floda Church in Dala-Floda, Gagnef Municipality, Dalarna, Sweden.

  • Pontoon bridge across river Rhine at Koblenz, Germany, 1896

  • Howrah Bridge Calcutta, India, 1906

  • Pontoon bridge + bascule at Deventer, Netherlands, 1910

  • Rzhev on the Volga River, early color photograph by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii as part of his work to document the Russian Empire from 1904 to 1916.

  • Staritsa, Tver Oblast, on the Volga River, early color photograph by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii

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