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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 ...
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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.
George Harrison Barbour (June 26, 1843 – March 28, 1934) was an American businessman, industrialist, financier, and manufacturer of stoves in Detroit, Michigan. He received his initial exposure to the business world while still a young boy at his father's grocery store.
SMS Adler was the third and final Habicht class gunboat built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the early 1880s. Intended to serve abroad, the ship was ordered as part of a construction program intended to modernize Germany's fleet of cruising vessels in the mid-1870s.
Florida investigators identified and seized a "vessel of interest" in the Key Biscayne boating hit-and-run that left a 15-year-old Ella Riley Adler dead.
Adler was a German bicycle, car, and motorcycle manufacturer from 1880 until 1957. The 'Adler' name is German for ' eagle '. Adlerwerke vormals Heinrich Kleyer (‘Adler Works formerly [known as] Heinrich Kleyer’) was a German manufacturer established by Heinrich Kleyer in Frankfurt am Main .
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.