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Barracks ship, the Glossary

A barracks ship or barracks barge or berthing barge, or in civilian use accommodation vessel or accommodation ship, is a ship or a non-self-propelled barge containing a superstructure of a type suitable for use as a temporary barracks for sailors or other military personnel.^[1]

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Barracks ships
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APL-17-class barracks ship

The APL-17-class barracks ship was a class of barracks ships of the United States Navy after the start of the Second World War, in the 1940s.

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Barge

Barge often refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion.

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Barracks

Barracks are buildings used to accommodate military personnel.

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Benewah-class barracks ship

The Benewah-class barracks ship was a class of barracks ships of the United States Navy after the Second World War, in the late 1940s.

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Brown-water navy

A brown-water navy or riverine navy, in the broadest sense, is a naval force capable of military operations in littoral zone waters.

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Dormitory ship

A dormitory ship is a vessel whose primary function is to serve as floating living quarters.

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Falklands War

The Falklands War (Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Floating battery

A floating battery is a kind of armed watercraft, often improvised or experimental, which carries heavy armament but has few other qualities as a warship. Barracks ship and floating battery are ship types.

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Hulk (ship type)

A hulk is a ship that is afloat, but incapable of going to sea. Barracks ship and hulk (ship type) are ship types.

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Jade-class aircraft carrier

The Jade class comprised a pair of passenger ships intended to be converted into auxiliary aircraft carriers by Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.

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Kriegsmarine

The Kriegsmarine was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.

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MV Leinster (1937)

MV Leinster was a passenger ferry operated across the Irish Sea between 1937 and 1966.

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Naval Vessel Register

The Naval Vessel Register (NVR) is the official inventory of ships and service craft in custody of or titled by the United States Navy.

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Nuclear marine propulsion

Nuclear marine propulsion is propulsion of a ship or submarine with heat provided by a nuclear reactor.

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Oil platform

An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed.

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Presidential Unit Citation (United States)

The Presidential Unit Citation (PUC), originally called the Distinguished Unit Citation, is awarded to units of the uniformed services of the United States, and those of allied countries, for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy on or after 7 December 1941 (the date of the Attack on Pearl Harbor and the start of American involvement in World War II).

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Prison ship

A prison ship, often more accurately described as a prison hulk, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive detention for convicts, prisoners of war or civilian internees. Barracks ship and prison ship are naval ships.

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Rhino ferry

A rhino ferry is a barge constructed from several pontoons which are connected and equipped with outboard engines, used to transport heavy equipment and people.

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Shetland

Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway.

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Stanley, Falkland Islands

Stanley (also known as Port Stanley) is the capital city of the Falkland Islands.

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Sullom Voe Terminal

The Sullom Voe Terminal is an oil and gas terminal at Sullom Voe in the Shetland Islands of Scotland.

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Superstructure

A superstructure is an upward extension of an existing structure above a baseline.

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Type B ship

The Type B ship is a United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) designation for World War II barges. Barracks ship and Type B ship are ship types.

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USS City of Dalhart

USS City of Dalhart (IX-156) was built for the United States Shipping Board (USSB), delivered to the USSB in November 1920 and, after exchanging original steam engines with diesels, operated by the board's agents in Pacific trade until bareboat charter to the Navy in February 1944 by the War Shipping Administration (WSA) for the duration of the war.

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USS Harry S. Truman

USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) is the eighth of the United States Navy, named after the 33rd President of the United States, Harry S. Truman.

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USS Ocelot

USS Ocelot (IX–110) was an unclassified miscellaneous vessel of the United States Navy, which served as the flagship of Service Squadron 10 in the Pacific War from late 1944, until she was wrecked in a typhoon in late 1945.

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USS Orvetta (IX-157)

USS Orvetta (IX–157) was built for the US Shipping Board as Tampa in 1920 by the Oscar Daniels Co., Tampa, Fla.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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VT Halter Marine

VT Halter Marine, Inc. was a shipbuilding company and an American subsidiary of ST Engineering.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracks_ship

Also known as APL-15, APL-17-class Barracks ship, APL-18, APL-2, APL-2-class Barracks ship, APL-29, APL-32, APL-35-class Barracks ship, APL-4, APL-41-class Barracks ship, APL-42, APL-45, APL-5, APL-50, APL-53-class Barracks ship, APL-58, APL-61, APL-61-class Barracks craft, APL-61-class Barracks ship, APL-62, APL-65, APL-65-class Barracks craft, APL-65-class Barracks ship, APL-66, APL-67, APL-67-class Barracks ship, APL-68, APL-69, APL-70, APL-71, APL-72, Accommodation ship, Barracks barge, Barracks craft, YRBM, Yard Repair Berthing and Messing.