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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 moved and steered using long oars called "sweeps" and the motive power of water currents.
A lighterman is a worker who operates a lighter, a type of flat-bottomed barge, which may be powered or unpowered. In the latter case, it is usually moved by a powered tug. The term is particularly associated with the highly skilled men who operated the unpowered lighters moved by oar and water currents in the Port of London.
Lightering (also called lighterage) is the process of transferring cargo between vessels of different sizes, usually between a barge and a bulker or oil tanker. Lightering is undertaken to reduce a vessel's draft so it can enter port facilities that cannot accept large fully-loaded ocean-going vessels.
It was back in 2005 that I began seriously following Kirby Corporation , a Houston-based company that plies its trade in two distinct areas: the operation of tank barges and tugboats on inland ...
The lighter aboard ship (LASH) system refers to the practice of loading barges aboard a bigger vessel for transport. It was developed in response to a need to transport lighters, a type of (usually but not always) unpowered barge, between inland waterways separated by open seas .
USSB #2007 Barge; Built by Nashville Bridge Company in Nashville, TN, Design # 1096; USSB #2776 Barge, Tank; USSB #2777 Barge, Tank; USSB #2778 Barge, Tank; USSB #2779 Barge, Tank; FY-273 covered lighter barge YFN-958 a covered lighter barge, non-Self-propelled. Built by Mare Island Navy Shipyard in 1944.
A barge operator believes it has found a sunken barge in the Ohio River near Pittsburgh, one of 26 that broke loose and floated away during weekend flooding, company officials said Tuesday. Crews ...
Laded survives in the phrases bill of lading and fully laden) In the Port of London they overwhelmingly used flat-bottomed barges, called lighters. [2] The King's Bargemaster and Royal Watermen are chosen from their number. The company's centuries-spanning apprenticeship index is a popular genealogy source. [2] [3]