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  2. Coastal trading vessel - Wikipedia

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    Coastal trading vessels, also known as coasters or skoots, [1] are shallow-hulled [citation needed] merchant ships used for transporting cargo along a coastline. Their shallow hulls mean that they can get through reefs where deeper-hulled seagoing ships usually cannot (26-28 feet), but as a result they are not optimized for the large waves ...

  3. List of ships of the United States Army - Wikipedia

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    For reference above see the comprehensive list in Grover's print book U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II chapter "Coastal Freighters and Passenger Vessels" (pages 74–89) and the builders list "U.S. Army Coastal Freighters (F, FS) Built During WWII" at ShipbuildingHistory. The last only covers the acquired commercial hulls as ...

  4. USS Camano - Wikipedia

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    USS Camano (AG-130/AKL-1) was an Army Design 381 coastal freighter acquired by the United States Navy 16 July 1947 at Apra Harbor, Guam and became the lead ship of her class of cargo ship. She was configured as a Navy transport and cargo ship and operated with the U.S. Pacific Fleet until 1951, when she was turned over to the U.S. Department of ...

  5. Hickinbotham Brothers Shipbuilders - Wikipedia

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    Hickinbotham Brothers in 1894 in Stockton, California. Hickinbotham Brothers Shipbuilders was a shipbuilding company in Stockton, California on the Stockton Channel.To support the World War II demand for ships Hickinbotham Brothers built: Type V ship Tugboats, Tank Landing Barge, balloon barges and Coastal Freighter (design 381, 381 tons).

  6. SS Catalina - Wikipedia

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    The ferry was designated a Coastal Freighter and Passenger Vessel (FS) and assigned the Army number FS-99. [17] US Army FS-99 was used to transport troops from embarkation camps to the ocean transports throughout the San Francisco Port of Embarkation. [18] The ship's troop capacity was 2,500 with a civilian crew of 39 officers and men. [19]

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