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Reefer Ships – Maritime Information. Reefership Marine Services. ReeferTrends – a news and information service for the global refrigerated shipping trade; Winchester, Clarence, ed. (1937), "Refrigerated Ships", Shipping Wonders of the World, pp. 553– 556 illustrated description and survey of refrigerated ships.
Prismatic tanks enabled the ship's cargo carrying capacity to be maximised, thus making fully refrigerated ships highly suitable for carrying large volumes of cargo such as LPG, ammonia and vinyl chloride over long distances. Today, fully refrigerated ships range in capacity from 20,000 to 100,000 m 3 (710,000 to
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 110 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
USS Aludra (AF-55) (built as SS Matchless a type R2-S-BV1 ship) at sea, 17 September 1954 SS Adria (AF-30), a type R1-M-AV3 Adria-class ship, in 1949. The Type R ship is a United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) designation for World War II refrigerated cargo ship, also called a reefer ship.
The first of a new class of high-speed, large-capacity, fully refrigerated stores issue ships, Rigel completed shakedown out of Newport, Rhode Island, and her homeport of Norfolk, Virginia. In February 1956, she sailed south for the first time; underwent further training in Cuban and Puerto Rican waters; and into the fall provided logistic ...
Sirius-class combat stores ships (5 P) Pages in category "Stores ships of the United States Navy" The following 72 pages are in this category, out of 72 total.
The Navigator Libra, a semi-refrigerated gas carrier was delivered in February 2012. In December 2012 the company had contracted a company in Jiangnan, China to build four ethylene-capable semi-refrigerated gas carriers. Liquefied Ethylene Gas (LEG) carriers are "the most sophisticated of the semi-pressurized tankers and have the ability to ...
RMSP had previously had ships with cool chambers in their holds, but Parana, Pardo and Potaro were the company's first fully-refrigerated ships. [15] They enabled RMSP to start carrying frozen meat to Britain from Argentinian ports on the Río de la Plata including Campana, Ensenada and La Plata. [16] The three ships also carried passengers.