Barge information

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...

BARGE, the Big August Rec.Gambling Excursion, is a yearly convention held in Las Vegas during the summer, usually a weekend in late July or the first...

La Barge may refer to: La Barge, Wyoming, United States La Barge (Puy-de-Dôme), a village in the commune of Saint-Priest-des-Champs, France This disambiguation...

John D. Barge is the former superintendent of schools for the U.S. state of Georgia. He was a candidate for Governor of Georgia in the 2014 election,...

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...

Container on barge is a form of intermodal freight transport where containers are stacked on a barge and towed to a destination . There is limited use...

Administration (MARAD) designation for World War II barges. Barges are very low cost to build, operate and move. Barges were needed to move large bulky cargo. A...

A Dutch barge is a traditional flat-bottomed shoal-draught barge, originally used to carry cargo in the shallow Zuiderzee and the waterways of Netherlands...

A hopper barge is a type of barge commonly designed to transport commodities like coal, steel, rocks, sand, soil and waste. 'Hopper barge' can also refer...

-122.569430 The McBarge, officially named the Friendship 500, is a former McDonald's restaurant, built on a 187-foot-long (57 m) barge for Expo '86 in Vancouver...

27 May 1940 – 19 November 2003), better known by her stage name Gillian Barge was an English stage, television and film actress. She was born in Hastings...

The Google barges were a group of four floating barges built between 2010 and 2012, intended by Google to serve as "an interactive space where people...

A royal barge is a ceremonial barge that is used by a monarch for processions and transport on a body of water. Royal barges are currently used in monarchies...

powerships, known as power barges, are power plants installed on a deck barge. These are sometimes called "floating power plants" or "barge mounted power plants"...

Edward John Barge (August 29, 1910 – September 29, 1991) was an American animator. Barge was born to Alfred Edward and Margaret G. Barge in San Jose, California...

A railroad car float or rail barge is a specialised form of lighter with railway tracks mounted on its deck used to move rolling stock across water obstacles...

Beauty and the Barge may refer to: Beauty and the Barge (play), a 1905 play by W. W. Jacobs Beauty and the Barge (1914 film), a silent British film directed...

"Barge of the Dead" is an episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. It is the third episode of the sixth season and...

An ice cream barge was a vessel employed by the United States Navy in the Pacific Theater of World War II to produce ice cream in large quantities to...

space for cargo.) During the late 19th century, there were concrete river barges in Europe, and during both World War I and World War II, steel shortages...

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

Bargal (Somali: Baargaal, Arabic: بارجال) is a town in the northeastern Bari region of Puntland, Somalia. Bargal is situated in the mountainous Bari province...

bridges, and drilling platforms. Jackup barges being used to dismantle a ship that was wrecked at sea. Jackup barge servicing a Vestas V80-2MW wind turbine...

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...

A flexible barge is a non-rigid barge usually made of fabric. This[which?] test ended on April 29 when the fabric of one of the two bags under tow developed...