Engine room
Main engine deck of a cargo vessel.
Location of a ship's engine room on a container ship.
On a ship, the engine room, or ER, is...
Engine Department
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Container ship
Two container ships pass in San Francisco Bay
Class overview
Name:
Container ship
Subclasses:
(1) Geared or gearless (as per cargo-handling type)
(2) Freighter or pure Container (as per passenger...
Bulk carrier
The Sabrina I is a modern Handymax bulk carrier.
Class overview
Subclasses:
Handymax, Handysize, Panamax,Capesize
Built:
c. 1850–present
Active:
9,570 vessels over 500 GT (2012)
General characteristics (typical)
Type:
Bulk carrier
Tonnage:
up to 400,000 DWT
Propulsion:
2-stroke diesel engine...
Cargo ship
The Colombo Express, one of the largest container ships in the world (when she was built in 2005), owned and operated by Hapag-Lloyd of...
LNG carrier
LNG Rivers, with a capacity of 135 000 cubic metres
An LNG carrier is a tank ship designed for transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG). As...
Oil tanker
The commercial oil tanker AbQaiq, in ballast
Class overview
Name:
Oil tanker
Subclasses:
Handysize, Panamax, Aframax,Suezmax, Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC),
Ultra Large Crude Carrier (ULCC),Ti Class (ti)
Built:
c. 1963–present
In service:
4,024...
Merchant Ships
Historical merchant trading ship: a Dutch fluyt cargo vessel from the late 17th-century
A merchant vessel or trading vessel is a ship that transports cargo...