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2. MV Cape Texas (T-AKR-112) - Wikipedia

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   MV Cape Texas (T-AKR-112} is a Roll-on/Roll-off (RO/RO) ship with the Ready Reserve Force (RRF) of the United States Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration (MARAD). [4] As of 31 December 2014 [update] , her homeport is the Port of Beaumont in Beaumont, Texas , and she is on ROS-5 status; she is able to be fully operational ...

3. Type V ship - Wikipedia

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   US Army Motor Towing Launch (MTL) Tugs in 1944. For World War 2 the US Army had tugboats built to move cargo barges in harbors. The Army often called the tug a Sea Mule, used to move US Army barges. Astoria Marine Construction Company built 15 MTL. [50] Small wood US Army MTL Harbor Tugboats, 14 model 324-A with a length of 47 feet, a beam of ...

4. Texan schooner Zavala - Wikipedia

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   The Texas Navy was officially formed in January 1836, with the purchase of four schooners: Invincible, Brutus, Independence, and Liberty.These ships, under the command of Commodore Charles Hawkins, helped Texas win independence by preventing a Mexican blockade of the Texas coast, seizing Mexican ships carrying reinforcements and supplies to its army, and sending their cargoes to the Texas ...

5. VB-10,000 (ship) - Wikipedia

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   VB-10,000 is a heavy-lift twin-gantry catamaran consisting of two truss space frames atop two barges.The design was derived from Versabar's earlier VB-4000 (aka Bottom Feeder), [1] [2] which was developed to clear debris from toppled oil drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.

6. Elissa (ship) - Wikipedia

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   The vessel was named for the niece of Henry Fowler Watt, Elissa ' s first owner, [4] though according to his descendants the ship was named for the Queen of Carthage, Elissa (more commonly called Dido), Aeneas' tragic lover in the epic poem The Aeneid. [citation needed] Elissa also sailed under Norwegian and Swedish flags.

7. Liberty ship - Wikipedia

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   A fire broke out on board which eventually caused the entire ammonium nitrate cargo to explode. The massive explosion levelled Texas City and caused fires which detonated more ammonium nitrate in a nearby ship and warehouse. It was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in US history. This incident is known as the Texas City disaster today. [46]