The term barge has a rich history, and therefore there are many other types of barges. "Barge" is attested from 1300, from Old French barge, from Vulgar...

larger barges were seaworthy vessels, and were the largest sailing vessel to be handled by just two men. The average size was about 120 tons and they...

crane barge, or floating crane is a ship with a crane specialized in lifting heavy loads, typically exceeding 1,500 t (1,476 long tons; 1,653 short tons) for...

A lighter is a type of flat-bottomed barge used to transfer goods and passengers to and from moored ships. Lighters were traditionally unpowered and were...

20-ton capacity, operating up the Bear River to the next set of rapids. After that portage, freight was transferred to a tugboat pushing a 50-ton barge to...

#2778 Barge, Tank USSB #2779 Barge, Tank YFN barges were not self-propelled. YF barges were self-propelled. A YFN could carry a load of 550 long tons. YFN...

petrol-carrying barges. The barges weighed 160 tons and were constructed on the London dockside before being craned into the water by a giant crane. Some barges were...

Dutch East India Company. It included Day von Balluseck, Willem Banning, Ton Barge, Louis Einthoven, Pieter Geijl, Marinus van der Goes van Naters, Dolf...

122.293196°W / 37.791404; -122.293196 The Hughes Mining Barge, or HMB-1, is a submersible barge about 99 m (324 ft) long, 32 m (106 ft) wide, and more...

higher than the 72-foot (22 m) bridge deck. The six-year-old, 37,134-ton barge carrier MS München was lost at sea in 1978. At 3 a.m. on 12 December 1978...

The LARC-LX (Lighter, Amphibious Resupply, Cargo, 60 ton), originally designated as BARC (Barge, Amphibious Resupply, Cargo) is a welded steel-hulled amphibious...

rebuild the Don and the Stainforth and Keadby routes to allow 300- or 400-ton barges to be used, and to develop coal-handling facilities at Keadby so that...

General Slocum were salvaged and converted into a 625-gross register ton barge named Maryland, which sank in the South River in 1909 and again in the...

Thailand's Royal Barge Procession (Thai: กระบวนพยุหยาตราชลมารค; RTGS: krabuan phayuhayattra chonlamak) is a ceremony of both religious and royal significance...

The lighter aboard ship (LASH) system refers to the practice of loading barges (lighters) aboard a bigger vessel for transport. It was developed in response...

as in crowded harbors or narrow canals, or cannot move at all, such as barges, disabled ships, log rafts, or oil platforms. Some are ocean-going, and...

ton schooner was stranded on Diamond Shoals on the coast of North Carolina with the loss of all 12 people on board. Unknown  United States The barge,...

little maintenance. In the 1950s hopper barges ranged from 800 to 3,500 tons. A hopper barge differs from other barges by having a hopper. This is the area...

Frank Barton and Pat Hucket successfully navigated a 124-foot (38 m) 230-ton barge up the river to Hereford. Travelling time on the river was 20 hours, but...

precast in Petaluma and barged to the site. At monthly intervals, tugs positioned barges with one or two 100-foot-long (30 m), 500-ton pre-cast concrete roadway...

Julia Davis  United States The 58-gross register ton schooner was lost in a collision with the barge Valentine in the eastern end of Long Island Sound...

register ton barge sank off Point Judith, Rhode Island. The only person on board survived. W. D. Brimmer  United States The 334-gross register ton barge sank...

short tons (890 long tons; 910 t). It is one of the largest boomable stiff-leg-derrick barges on the eastern seaboard of the United States. The barge measures...

The New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal) is a successor to the Erie Canal and other canals within New York....

provide power to Russian Arctic coastal cities and gas rigs. A 21,500-ton barge with twin 35-megawatt reactors, the Akademik Lomonosov, will go into operation...

incident took place on 21 September 2005, when the James Prior, a 200-ton barge, collided with the bridge, causing serious structural damage costing over...

public use. 203 km; 122 km navigable by motorized craft and 200-metric-ton barges Labasa, Lautoka, Levuka, Savusavu, Suva Total: 6 ships (1,000 GT or over)...

cost of 30 miles by wagon. A horse that could pull a one-ton wagon could pull a 30-ton barge. During the English or First Industrial Revolution, supplying...

ton motor vessel was stranded at Stonington, Maine. Both people on board survived. Pocomoke  United States The 827-gross register ton schooner barge foundered...

March 22, 1987, the tugboat Break of Day towed the barge Mobro 4000 and its cargo of over 3,100 tons of trash. Chartered by entrepreneur Lowell Harrelson...