shuttle tanker
1Shuttle tanker — A shuttle tanker is a ship designed for oil transport from an off shore oil field. It is equipped with off loading equipment compatible with the oil field in question. This normally consists of a taut hawser arrangement or dynamic positioning to… …
2Shuttle Carrier Aircraft — NASA s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 905 (front) and 911 …
3Double acting ship — MT Tempera, the first double acting tanker, breaking ice astern Double acting ship (DAS) is a type of icebreaking merchant ship designed to run ahead in open water and astern (in layman s terms, backwards) in ice. Such ships can operate… …
4USS Big Horn (AO-45) — USS Big Horn (AO 45/IX 207) was a Q ship of the United States Navy named for the Bighorn River of Wyoming and Montana. Gulf Dawn , a single screw oil tanker, was built in 1936 at Chester, Pennsylvania, by the Sun Shipbuilding Drydock Corp. and… …
5USS Yahara (AOG-37) — was a Mettawee class gasoline tanker acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet, and to remote Navy stations. Yahara was named by the U.S. Navy after the Yahara, a river which rises at a… …
6USS Kern (AOG-2) — was a sclass|Patapsco|gasoline tanker acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet, and to remote Navy stations. Kern was laid as Rappahannock by Seattle Tacoma Ship Building Co., Tacoma,… …
7Teekay Petrojarl — Infobox Company company name = Teekay Petrojarl ASA company company type = Public foundation = 1998 location = Trondheim, Norway key people = Peter Lytzen (CEO) area served = industry = Petroleum products = Floating Production Storage and… …
8FPSO Noble Seillean — Career Name: FPSO Noble Seillean Operator …
9Dynamic positioning — Offshore Support Vessel Toisa Perseus with, in the background, the fifth generation deepwater drillship Discoverer Enterprise, over the Thunder Horse Oil Field. Both are equipped with DP systems. Dynamic positioning (DP) is a computer controlled… …
10USS Trinity (AO-13) — was laid down on 10 November 1919 at Newport News, Va., by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co.; launched on 3 July 1920; and commissioned on 4 September 1920, Comdr. Harry M. Bostwick, USNRF, in command.Initial CruiseFollowing shakedown …
