Barge, the Glossary
Barge often refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion.[1]
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90 relations: Acrisure Stadium, American Waterways Operators, Barge Haulers on the Volga, Barque, Bibby Stockholm, Bitumen, Brooklyn, Burlak, Canals of the United Kingdom, Car float, Chain boat, Chao Phraya River, Container on barge, Coptic language, Cracking (chemistry), Danube, Dniester, Dormitory ship, Dorset, Dory, Dutch barge, Egyptian hieroglyphs, England, Ferrocement, Flat-bottomed boat, Float (nautical), Florida, France, Germany, Google Books, Grand Canal (China), Greek language, Hanover, Hopper barge, Hughes Mining Barge, Humber, Hurricane Katrina, IJmuiden, Ilya Repin, Industrial Revolution, Jiangsu, Jumbotron, Kentucky, Kingdom of Great Britain, Lambersart, Latin, Lighter (barge), Lighterman, List of the types of canal craft in the United Kingdom, Louisville, Kentucky, ... Expand index (40 more) »
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Acrisure Stadium
Acrisure Stadium, formerly (and still colloquially) known as Heinz Field, is a football stadium located in the North Shore neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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American Waterways Operators
The American Waterways Operators, is the national trade association for the U.S. tugboat, towboat and barge industry.
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Barge Haulers on the Volga
Barge Haulers on the Volga or Burlaki (Бурлаки на Волге, Burlaki na Volge) is an 1870–1873 oil-on-canvas painting by artist Ilya Repin.
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Barque
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts consisting of a fore mast, mainmast and additional masts rigged square and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) rigged fore and aft.
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Bibby Stockholm
Bibby Stockholm, an engineless barge, is an accommodation vessel owned by the shipping and marine operations company Bibby Line. Barge and Bibby Stockholm are barges.
Bitumen
Bitumen is an immensely viscous constituent of petroleum.
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.
Burlak
A burlak (p) was a river boat or barge puller in the Russian Empire.
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Canals of the United Kingdom
The canals of the United Kingdom are a major part of the network of inland waterways in the United Kingdom.
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Car float
A railroad car float or rail barge is a specialised form of lighter with railway tracks mounted on its deck used to move rolling stock across water obstacles, or to locations they could not otherwise go.
Chain boat
A chain boat,John MacGregor (1867). Barge and chain boat are barges and shipping.
Chao Phraya River
The Chao Phraya (or; แม่น้ำเจ้าพระยา,, or) is the major river in Thailand, with its low alluvial plain forming the centre of the country.
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Container on barge
Container on barge is a form of intermodal freight transport where containers are stacked on a barge and towed to a destination.
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Coptic language
Coptic (Bohairic Coptic) is a group of closely related Egyptian dialects, representing the most recent developments of the Egyptian language, and historically spoken by the Copts, starting from the third century AD in Roman Egypt.
Cracking (chemistry)
In petrochemistry, petroleum geology and organic chemistry, cracking is the process whereby complex organic molecules such as kerogens or long-chain hydrocarbons are broken down into simpler molecules such as light hydrocarbons, by the breaking of carbon–carbon bonds in the precursors.
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Danube
The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.
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Dniester
The Dniester is a transboundary river in Eastern Europe.
Dormitory ship
A dormitory ship is a vessel whose primary function is to serve as floating living quarters.
Dorset
Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.
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Dory
A dory is a small, shallow-draft boat, about long.
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Dutch barge
A Dutch barge is a traditional flat-bottomed shoal-draught barge, originally used to carry cargo in the shallow Zuiderzee and the waterways of Netherlands. Barge and Dutch barge are barges.
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Ferrocement
Ferrocement or ferro-cement is a system of construction using reinforced mortar or plaster (lime or cement, sand, and water) applied over an "armature" of metal mesh, woven, expanded metal, or metal-fibers, and closely spaced thin steel rods such as rebar.
Flat-bottomed boat
A flat-bottomed boat is a boat with a shallow draft, two-chined hull, which allows it to be used in shallow bodies of water, such as rivers, because it is less likely to ground.
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Float (nautical)
Floats (also called pontoons) are airtight hollow structures, similar to pressure vessels, designed to provide buoyancy in water.
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Florida
Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.
Grand Canal (China)
The Grand Canal is a system of interconnected canals linking various major rivers in North and East China, serving as an important waterborne transport infrastructure between the north and the south during Medieval and premodern China.
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Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Hanover
Hanover (Hannover; Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony.
Hopper barge
A hopper barge is a type of barge commonly designed to transport commodities like coal, steel, rocks, sand, soil and waste. Barge and hopper barge are barges.
Hughes Mining Barge
The Hughes Mining Barge, or HMB-1, is a submersible barge about 99 m (324 ft) long, 32 m (106 ft) wide, and more than 27 m (90 ft) tall.
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Humber
The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England.
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Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was a devastating and deadly Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $186.3 billion (2022 USD) in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area.
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IJmuiden
IJmuiden is a port city in the Dutch province of North Holland.
Ilya Repin
Ilya Yefimovich Repin (– 29 September 1930) was a Ukrainian-born Russian painter.
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.
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Jiangsu
Jiangsu is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China.
Jumbotron
A jumbotron, sometimes referred to as jumbovision, is a video display using large-screen television technology (video wall).
Kentucky
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Kingdom of Great Britain
The Kingdom of Great Britain was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800.
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Lambersart
Lambersart is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Lighter (barge)
A lighter is a type of flat-bottomed barge used to transfer goods and passengers to and from moored ships. Barge and lighter (barge) are barges.
Lighterman
A lighterman is a worker who operates a lighter, a type of flat-bottomed barge, which may be powered or unpowered.
List of the types of canal craft in the United Kingdom
This is a list of the types of craft to be found on the canals and non-tidal rivers of the United Kingdom for which the Canal and River Trust have a licence category.
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Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States.
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Mobro 4000
The Mobro 4000 was a barge owned by MOBRO Marine, Inc.
Moselle
The Moselle (Mosel; Musel) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany.
Muskegon, Michigan
Muskegon is a city in and the county seat of Muskegon County, Michigan, United States.
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Narrowboat
A narrowboat is a particular type of canal boat, built to fit the narrow locks of the United Kingdom.
National Waterways Museum
The National Waterways Museum (NWM) is in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, at the northern end of the Shropshire Union Canal where it meets the Manchester Ship Canal.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
Ohio River
The Ohio River is a river in the United States.
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.
Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.
Pascagoula, Mississippi
Pascagoula is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States.
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Pelican
Pelicans (genus Pelecanus) are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae.
Pier
A pier is a raised structure that rises above a body of water and usually juts out from its shore, typically supported by piles or pillars, and provides above-water access to offshore areas.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Port Canaveral
Port Canaveral is a cruise, cargo, and naval port in Brevard County, Florida, United States.
Portland Harbour
Portland Harbour is located beside the Isle of Portland, Dorset, on the south coast of England.
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Pusher (boat)
A pusher, pusher craft, pusher boat, pusher tug, or towboat, is a boat designed for pushing barges or car floats.
Razee
A razee or razée is a sailing ship that has been cut down (razeed) to reduce the number of decks.
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River Irwell
The River Irwell is a tributary of the River Mersey in north-west England.
River Mersey
The River Mersey is a major river in North West England.
River Severn
The River Severn (Afon Hafren), at long, is the longest river in Great Britain.
River Thames
The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.
Ross Barlow
The canal boat Ross Barlow is a hybrid hydrogen narrowboat, power-assisted by an electric motor whose electricity is supplied by a fuel cell or a battery. Barge and Ross Barlow are barges.
Royal Barge Procession
Thailand's Royal Barge Procession (กระบวนพยุหยาตราชลมารค) is a ceremony of both religious and royal significance which has taken place for nearly 700 years.
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Scow
A scow is a smaller type of barge.
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Shallop
Shallop is a name used for several types of boats and small ships (French chaloupe) used for coastal navigation from the seventeenth century.
Slipway
A slipway, also known as boat ramp or launch or boat deployer, is a ramp on the shore by which ships or boats can be moved to and from the water.
Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program.
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
Thames sailing barge
A Thames sailing barge is a type of commercial sailing boat once common on the River Thames in London. Barge and Thames sailing barge are barges.
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Toulouse
Toulouse (Tolosa) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania.
Towpath
A towpath is a road or trail on the bank of a river, canal, or other inland waterway.
Tub boat
A tub boat was a type of unpowered cargo boat used on a number of the early English and German canals.
Tugboat
A tugboat or tug is a marine vessel that manoeuvres other vessels by pushing or pulling them, with direct contact or a tow line.
Tulsa Ports
Tulsa Ports consists of the ports of Catoosa and Inola near Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, on the Verdigris River, a tributary of the Arkansas River and the Mississippi River.
Type B ship
The Type B ship is a United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) designation for World War II barges.
Vulgar Latin
Vulgar Latin, also known as Popular or Colloquial Latin, is the range of non-formal registers of Latin spoken from the Late Roman Republic onward.
Wat Arun
Wat Arun Ratchawararam Ratchawaramahawihan (วัดอรุณราชวราราม ราชวรมหาวิหาร) or Wat Arun ("Temple of Dawn") is a Buddhist temple (wat) in the Bangkok Yai district of Bangkok, Thailand.
Widebeam
A widebeam is a canal boat built in the style of a British narrowboat but with a beam of or greater.
Yangzhou
Yangzhou is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province, East China.
See also
Shipping
- Autorack
- Baltic Exchange
- Barge
- Bunker quantity survey
- Chain boat
- Chain boat navigation
- Crowdshipping
- DeLong pier
- Far Eastern Freight Conference
- Freight technology
- German–Polish Poets' Steamer
- Hold (compartment)
- IMPA coding
- International Register of Shipping
- Klotok
- Liner service
- Maritime Informatics
- Maritime transport
- Navigability
- Ore dock
- Protecting agent (shipping)
- Sea queen
- Ship canal
- Shipping agency
- Shipping companies
- Shipping containers
- Shipping markets
- Ships
- Title 46 of the United States Code
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barge
Also known as Bargee, Barges, Dumb barge, Oceangoing barge, Poleboat, River barge, River barges, Unmanned barge.
, Mobro 4000, Moselle, Muskegon, Michigan, Narrowboat, National Waterways Museum, New York City, Ohio River, Oklahoma, Old French, Pascagoula, Mississippi, Pelican, Pier, Pittsburgh, Port Canaveral, Portland Harbour, Pusher (boat), Razee, River Irwell, River Mersey, River Severn, River Thames, Ross Barlow, Royal Barge Procession, Scow, Shallop, Slipway, Space Shuttle, Texas A&M University, Thailand, Thames sailing barge, Toulouse, Towpath, Tub boat, Tugboat, Tulsa Ports, Type B ship, Vulgar Latin, Wat Arun, Widebeam, Yangzhou.