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They were designed with steel hulls to replace the 64 ft (20 m) wooden-hulled tugs that had been in service since the 1940s and were built by Gibbs Gas Engine Company, Jacksonville, Florida; [3] Barbour Boat Works of New Bern, North Carolina; [4] and Western Boat Builders Corporation, Tacoma, Washington [5] from 1961 to 1967. They were ...
Aerial view of Seeadler Harbor in 1945, with US Navy Fleet Anchorage Floating ship repair dock ABSD-4 background in Seeadler Harbor with ABSD-2 (foreground) in September 1945 Manus Naval Base, Naval supply depot with piers and quonset Hut warehouses on September 18, 1945 Naval Receiving Station, Lorengau, Manus, November 1944
By 1890, after acquiring the patent rights of Franz Windhausen's CO 2-compression refrigeration system, the J & E Hall company installed the first marine CO 2 refrigerator system on the Nelson Line ship Highland Chief. In 1900, a worldwide survey found 356 refrigerated ships, 37% of which had air machines, 37% ammonia compressors and 25% CO 2 ...
USS Aludra (AF-55) (built as SS Matchless a type R2-S-BV1 ship) at sea, 17 September 1954 SS Adria (AF-30), a type R1-M-AV3 Adria-class ship, in 1949. The Type R ship is a United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) designation for World War II refrigerated cargo ship, also called a reefer ship.
The United States Marine Corps currently maintains 3 separate aviation support equipment military occupational specialties. They are: 6071 (basic technician, not "C" School qualified), 6072 aircraft maintenance support equipment hydraulic/ pneumatic structures mechanic and 6073 aircraft maintenance support equipment electrician / refrigeration ...
In August 2018, Brunswick Corporation acquired Power Products – Global Marine & Mobile business, which includes the global marine, specialty vehicle, mobile, industrial power, and transportation aftermarket products businesses of Power Products, for $910 million in cash from San Francisco-based private equity firm Genstar Capital.
Ice cream barge. The ice cream barge is the colloquial term for the BRL (Barge, Refrigerated, Large). This was a towed vessel employed by the United States Navy (USN) in the Pacific theater of World War II to store frozen and refrigerated foodstuffs.
Common absorption refrigerators use a refrigerant with a very low boiling point (less than −18 °C (0 °F)) just like compressor refrigerators.Compression refrigerators typically use an HCFC or HFC, while absorption refrigerators typically use ammonia or water and need at least a second fluid able to absorb the coolant, the absorbent, respectively water (for ammonia) or brine (for water).