ocean vessel
91sailing vessel — Synonyms and related words: bark, bawley, bilander, brig, brigantine, bully, buss, caravel, cat, catamaran, clipper, corsair, corvette, cutter, dandy, dhow, dromond, fishing smack, flattie, four masted bark, four master, frigate, galiot, galleass …
92motor vessel — noun : an inland waterway boat or ocean ship propelled by one or more diesel engines …
93Weather ship — The weather ship MS Polarfront at sea. A weather ship was a ship stationed in the ocean as a platform for surface and upper air meteorological observations for use in weather forecasting. They were primarily located in the north Atlantic and… …
94Lake freighter — Lake freighters, or Lakers, are cargo vessels that ply the Great Lakes. The most well known is the SS Edmund Fitzgerald , the latest major vessel to be wrecked on the Lakes. These vessels are traditionally called boats, not ships. In the mid 20th …
95Intermodal freight transport — For passenger transport, see Intermodal passenger transport. Intermodal ship to rail transfer of containerized cargos at APM Terminals in Portsmouth, Virginia. Intermodal freight transport involves the transportation of freight in an intermodal… …
96HMHS Britannic — (1914) , the third and largest Sclass|Olympic|ocean liner of the White Star Line, sister ship of RMS|Olympic and RMS|Titanic, sank in 1916 after hitting a mine with the loss of 30 lives. Although the White Star Line always denied what it called a …
97Alaskan (sidewheeler) — The steamship Alaskan operated from 1884 to 1889 on the Columbia River and Puget Sound. Alaskan and her near sistership Olympian were known as “Henry Villard’s White Elephants.”Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific… …
98Marine Life Protection Act — The Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) was passed in 1999 and is part of the California Fish and Game Code. The MLPA requires California to reevaluate all existing marine protected areas (MPAs) and potentially design new MPAs that together… …
99Monkey Business (1931 film) — Monkey Business theatrical release poster Directed by Norman Z. McLeod …
100Flood (2008 novel) — Flood is the work of hard science fiction author Stephen Baxter. It describes a near future world where deep submarine seismic activity leads to seabed fragmentation, and the opening of deep subterranean reservoirs of water, estimated to equal… …
